There he met his future wife, Una Call Kuster. After graduating, in a class of eleven, at age 18, in June 1905, Jeffers enrolled as a graduate student in literature at the University of Southern California. He became a frequent contributor to the school literary magazine, The Aurora, which became The Occidental under his editorship in his senior year. He then went on to enroll at Occidental College from 1903 to 1905. He first attended the University of Western Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh) from 1902 to 1903. Jeffers' education was acquired through many institutions of higher learning. There he built a stone cottage, which he named Tor House, and an observation tower, named Hawk Tower.

Next year, he moved with her to Carmel, on the Monterey coast of California. In 1913, Robinson Jeffers married a divorcee, Una Call Kuster, the former wife of a prominent Los Angeles attorney. His mother, Annie Robinson Jeffers, was a church organist and 20 years younger than William Hamilton Jeffers when they married.

His father, William Hamilton Jeffers, was a Presbyterian minister, professor of Old Testament literature, and traveled widely in Europe, where much of Jeffers's early education took place. John Robinson Jeffers was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 10, 1887.

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