Robert Frost (1874-1963) was a poet famous for his ability to celebrate the outdoors with colorful prose. He is one of the most widely known poets in the world and earned a Pulitzer Prize for his work.

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, CA to a family that had writing talent: his father, William Frost, Jr. was a journalist for the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. When Robert Frost was 9, his father passed away and his mother moved to Massachusetts. Frost spent the rest of his educational years in Massachusetts and NH, having attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University for a short time. He married and took a job teaching at Pinkerton Academy and then at the Plymouth Normal School (now Plymouth State University). While teaching, he composed some of his best known poetry, but at the time his work didn’t receive the recognition it would later on. After a short time living in Great Britain, he returned to the US, settling in Franconia, NH in 1915. That remained his property until his death.

While living there, he lectured at various universities in the region and continued to write. His poetry reflected his emotions, his surroundings and his immediate culture. Many consider his style to be discontinuous but very much based on the general content of the poetry in question. Some of his famous works include “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, and “The Gift Outright”, which he read at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. He died in 1963 from complications of prostate surgery.