Robert Frost

Robert Frost was born on Marh 26th, 1874 in San Francisco, California which may come as a shock to most. Robert Frost is often linked with the suburban New England image which often hides his birthplace. But it was in Boston, Massachusetts on January 29th, 1963 that he died.

Robert Frost was born to an Isabelle Moodie and a William Prescott Frost, Jr. Robert Frost became the eleventh generation of Frosts and Colcords who had battled the Indians. Growing up, Robert was very successful academically. He was co-valedictorian with his wife, Elinor White, in high school at Lawrence, Massachusetts. Robert Frost also went on to Harvard College from 1897 to 1899 as a special student but he never got a degree. Frost also attended Dartmouth College but stayed for less than one semester.

Robert Frost was an amazing poet who received

many awards including four Pulitzer prizes in 1923, 1930, 1936, and 1942. He wasn't always rich and famous however until he was forty, when his poetry started to catch the American publics attention. But once it did in 1914, Robert Frost was the nations best known and best loved serious poet.

Between the yaers of 1916 and 1938, Frost was an english professor at Amherst College. He once asked his class, after they had handed him his work, if any of them would like to keep their writing. After no one had answered, he simply threw them away. He was heard saying, "If you don't value them enough to keep them, I don't value them enough to want to read them." (Gould, Jen. Robert Frost - The Aim Was Song. 84)