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His father, William, came from Maine and New Hampshire ancestry and had graduated from Harvard in 1872.
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Born: March 26, 1874
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When Frost's father died in 1884, his will requested that he be buried in New England. His wife and two children, Robert and Jeanie, went east for the funeral. Lacking funds to return to California, they settled in Salem, Massachusetts.
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graduated from Lawrence High School as valedictorian and class poet in 1892.
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Became engaged to Elinor White
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In 1894 he sold his first poem, "My Butterfly," to the New York Independent.
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In 1895, Frost married Elinor and began a career of teaching.
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In 1898,Frost decided to try chicken farming.
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Turn of the century
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His first son soon died in Derry New Hampshire in 1906
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In 1907 Frost's fourth daughter died.
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In 1912, almost forty and with only a few poems published, Frost sold his farm and used an allowance from his grandfather to go to England and gamble everything on poetry.
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In 1913, Frostpublished 'A Boys Will'
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Published 'North of Boston' in 1914
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The Frosts returned to the United States in 1915
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From 1917-1920, Frost taught at Amherst.
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In 1920 he cofounded the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College, serving there each summer as lecturer and consultant.
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Frost's 'Selected Poems' and a new volume, 'New Hampshire,' appeared in 1923.
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Frost received the first of four Pulitzer Prizes for 'New Hampshire' in 1924.
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In 1928 Frost published 'West Running Brook.'
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In 1934 he suffered another painful loss with the death of his daughter Marjorie.
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Because of Frost's weak lungs, his doctor ordered him south in 1936. From then on, Frost spent his winters in Florida.
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Germany invades Poland ans WW2 begins
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In 1940 his only surviving son took his own life.
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The US became an official combatant in WW2 on December 8, 1941
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In 1945 Frost composed 'A Masque of Reason.'
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WW2 officially ended on september 2, 1945
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Frost's Complete Poems appeared in 1949
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In 1950 the U.S. Senate honored Frost on his seventy-fifth birthday.
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In 1957 he returned to England to receive doctoral degrees from Oxford and Cambridge.
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In 1961, at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), Frost recited "The Gift Outright," the first time a poet had honored a presidential inauguration.
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On January 29, 1963, Frost died in Boston, Massachusetts, of complications following an operation. He was buried in the family plot in Old Bennington, Vermont.
