Frost

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, taught in Massachusetts and died in Vermont. Prior to 1900 Frost moved in and out of college, wooed and finally won Elinor White, taught school with little success, lost a son to cholera and his mother to cancer, and sold his first poem for $15. In 1901 he inherited his grandmother's farm in Derry, NH and taught at Pinkerton Academy there. Over the next decade the Frosts had two children, before Robert chose to teach in Plymouth, NH, then to move instead to England to devote himself to poetry for two years. Back in the states, his reputation growing, Frost moved to Franconia, then to Amherst, NH. His link to the Granite State was forever forged in 1924 when his volume of poems called "New Hampshire" won him his first of four Pulitzer Prizes. By now Frost had also begun his long association with the Bread Loaf Conference in Vermont, and after flirting with a lifetime college post in Michigan, returned home to New England. As his fame and earning potential increased, his family life seemed to grow worse with his children's divorces, depression and illness. Frost suffered from exhaustion and after his wife Elinor died in 1938, Frost collapsed. Soon after, his son Carol committed suicide. Amazingly Frost recovered and flourished - teaching, writing, traveling, reading and lecturing. He received innumerable prizes and became, in his final years, advisor to presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, even meeting with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev. During the 20th century Frost was the most popular and best read poet in the nation, offering a vision of New England that is part of our Yankee heritage today.

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