Background
Whyatt, Frances was born on March 8, 1945 in Fort Hayes, Ohio, United States. Daughter of John Hancock Armstrong Grannis and Mary Grosvenor Boyd Colver.
Whyatt, Frances was born on March 8, 1945 in Fort Hayes, Ohio, United States. Daughter of John Hancock Armstrong Grannis and Mary Grosvenor Boyd Colver.
Student, Harvard University, 1966. Student, University Minnesota, 1969. Student, New York School of Poets, 1972.
Free-lance writer, since 1976. Professor creative writing Rutgers University, Fairleigh Dicknson.
Activist, public relations person Cleveland Legal Aid/Congress of Racial Equality/National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1967-1968, Mayor Carl Stokes, 1967-1968, Eugene McCarthy for President, 1967-1968. Founder action group Save the West Village Nursing Home, 1976-1978. Disaster relief person South Florida American Red Cross, 1992-1993.
Board directors West Village Dog Association, 1995-1998. Founder Action for Animals, 1997-1998. Fellow MacDowell Colony, Cummington Cmty of the Arts.
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Author's Guild, Poets and Writers, The Writers' Room, Poetry Society of America.
Married Thomas Edward Whyatt, October 11, 1964 (divorced September 1969). Married Ronald Augustine Schiavone, 1974 (divorced 1983).