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Robert Lee Frost is born in San Francisco
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Frost graduates as co-valedictorian of Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He enrolls at Dartmouth College, but returns home after only a semester, to teach and work at various jobs.
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Frost's first published poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy," appears in the New York Independent. He receives fifteen dollars for his work.
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Frost marries his Elinor Miriam White, his classmate and co-valedictorian at Lawrence High School.
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Robert Frost enrolls at Harvard College, where he studies liberal arts.
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Frost drops out of Harvard before he gets his degree because of his growing family
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Frost becomes an English teacher at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, a job he holds for the next five years.
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The Frost family moves to the United Kingdom in September. Frost befriends several literary notables, including Edward Thomas and Ezra Pound.
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A Boy's Will, Frost's first book of poetry, is published in England. (The American edition appears two years later.)
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Frost's second book of poetry, North of Boston, is published
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The Frosts move back to the United States as World War I begins. They settle on another farm, this time in Franconia, New Hampshire.
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Frost begins the first of three teaching stints at Amherst College, which take place 1917-1920, 1923-1925, and 1926-1938.
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Robert Frost wins his first Pulitzer Prize for the poetry collection New Hampshire. It includes his famous poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening."
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Frost wins his second Pulitzer Prize for his book Collected Poems.
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Frost wins his third Pulitzer Prize for the poetry collection A Further Range.
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Elinor Miriam White Frost, the poet's wife of 42 years, dies at the age of 65 from a heart attack
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Frost wins his fourth and final Pulitzer Prize for the poetry collection A Witness Tree. In September, he begins a six-year appointment as the George Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities at Dartmouth College.
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At the age of 86, Robert Frost reads at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. Blinded by the harsh sunlight, he is unable to read "Dedication," the poem he prepared for the event. Instead, he recites his poem "The Gift Outright" from memory.
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Robert Frost dies in Boston at the age of 88 following complications from prostate surgery. He is buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont.
