Robert Lee Frost

(Robert Frost)

Personal Background

Date of Birth: March 26, 1874

Date of Death: January 29, 1963
Age: 88
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States
Place of Death: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Father: William Prescott Frost Jr.
Mother: Isabelle Moodie
Civil Status: Married
Wife’s Name: Elinor Frost

Educational Background

First School Attended: Lawrence High School

Second School Attended: Dartmouth College

Third School Attended: Harvard University

Contribution to Literature

 Major Works

In 1894, Frost had his first poem, "My Butterfly: an Elegy," published in The Independent, a
weekly literary journal based in New York City.

Two poems, "The Tuft of Flowers" and "The Trial by Existence," were published in 1906.
 Frost credited Thomas's long walks over the English landscape as the inspiration for one of his
most famous poems, "The Road Not Taken."

 Awards & Achievements

During his lifetime, Frost received more than 40 honorary degrees.

 In 1924, Frost was awarded his first of four Pulitzer Prizes, for his book New
Hampshire. He would subsequently win Pulitzers for Collected Poems (1931), A
Further Range (1937) and A Witness Tree (1943)
 In 1960, Congress awarded Frost the Congressional Gold Medal
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