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Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874. He is the first born and later is big brother to Jeanie.
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At age 11, after Robbie's father dies of Tuberculosis, his mother, him and his sister Jeanie are moved to Lawrence, MA to live with his paternal grandparents.
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Robert Frost's poem "My Butterfly, An Elegy." is published in the New York Independent Magazine. He states that this is his first true poem. He receives $15.00 as payment for the right to publish it.
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Moves family to England and while there has two big works published.
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Robert Frost wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book "New Hampshire; a poem with notes and grace notes." It is one of the highest honors an author can achieve.
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Robert was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry by the National Insitute of Arts and Letters. He also receives apointment as Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellow in Poetry at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Robert receives Honorary Doctor of Letters from Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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Robert Frost was honored to read his poem, "The Gift Outright" at the inauguration of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy.
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Mr. Robert Frost had surgery due to cancer. During his recovery he suffered a pulmonary embolism and died in his sleep.
