Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Fransisco, California. He moved to New England when he was eleven years old. Robert became interested in reading and writing poetry when he was in high school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He went to Dartmouth College in 1892 and later went to Harvard, but never earned a formal degree. His first professional poem "My Butterfly" was published on November 8, 1894 in the New York newspaper The Independent. Robert married Elinor Miriam White in 1895 who was a major inspiration in his poetry until she died in 1938. They moved to England in 1912, where Frost met British poets Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves, and Ezra Pound who helped promote and publish his poetry. By the 1920's he was the most celebrated poet in America. Frost had won four Pulitzer Prizes throughout his career, as well as other honors. Robert Frost lived and taught in Massachusetts and Vermont, until he died in Boston on January 29, 1963.
Way to get to know your poet, Alex! I like how you start with the date he was born and end with the date he died. Maybe next time you could include a link to some of his poems.
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