Who was Robert Frost?

Robert Frost was a poet who is associated with the landscape and vernacular of New England. Born in San Francisco in 1874, he moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, when he was 11, following the death of his father from tuberculosis. After attending, but not graduating from, Dartmouth and Harvard, he worked as a cobbler and editor before turning his hand to poetry. By the 1920s, he had become a celebrated poet, having published several collections and having won four Pulitzer Prizes. From 1958 to 1959, he was the Poet Laureate of the United States. While his poems, such as "The Road Not Taken," are associated with the landscape of New England, they deal with larger ideas, such as how one decides on a path and recalls the past. Frost read a poem at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961, and he died in Boston in 1963.