Great Regulars: Ed [Lathem] was a close friend of Robert Frost.

Indeed, when Ed married in 1957, Frost served as his best man.

He met the poet while an undergraduate at Dartmouth, and Frost quickly adopted him as one of his so-called "boys"--that was the term Frost used for the young men who became his protégées.

But Ed Lathem was more than this, over time. Indeed, he published a formidable edition of the complete poems of Robert Frost in 1969--a book that's familiar to a generation or more of grateful readers.

In all, Ed Lathem published some thirty books, and he wrote many articles, including several about his closest friend and college roommate, Theodore Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss.

And yet this only begins to explain Ed Lathem.

from Jay Parini: Remembering Ed Lathem

~~~~~~~~~~~