Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco, CA. After losing his father to tuberculosis at age eleven, Frost moved to Lawrence, MA with his mother, sister, and grandparents. After graduating from Lawrence high school in 1892 Frost attends Dartmouth College for several months, he later returns to school attending Harvard University where he later drops out due to health concerns. In 1894 Frost first poem called "My butterfly: an Elegy" was published in The Independent. His first official book of poems titled 'A Boy's Will" was published in 1912 and his second, "North of Boston" in 1913. Both of which were incredibly successful. Frost taught poetry at various universities; Amherst College being where he spent the most significant amount of time (1916-1938). In Frost's lifetime he collected more than forty honorary degrees, a Congressional Gold Medal, and four Pulitzer Prizes. Frost past away in 1963 due to prostate surgery related complications.