ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The quintessential modern American poet, Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874 but moved to New England while a boy. After attending Dartmouth College and Harvard University, Frost traveled to England where he published A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), the books of poetry that marked his debut as a major talent.

After returning to the United States in 1915, Frost divided his time between teaching at Amherst College and farming in Franconia, New Hampshire. Four volumes of his poetry—New Hampshire (1923), Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936) and A Witness Tree (1942)—were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 1963.

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.