Robert FrostAmerican poet Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874, to William Prescott Frost Jr., a journalist, and Isabelle Moodie San Francisco, California. Father Frost worked as a teacher before becomig editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin and running unsuccessfully for city tax collector. Robert's grandfather William Frost, Sr., an overseer at a New England mill, helped the family relocate across the country to Lawrence, Massachusetts after his father's death on May 5, 1885. He sold his first poem in 1894. He proposed to Elinor Miriam White for marriage, feeling proud of his accomplishment. She objected, saying she wanted to finish college first before getting married. After that, Frost took a trip to Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp. She agreed after receiving her degree, and on December 19, 1895, they were married in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Frost sailed to Great Britain in 1912 with his family. The following year, A Boy's Will, his debut collection of poetry, was released. His book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes earned him the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes in 1924. On January 29, 1963, Frost died in Boston as a result of complications from prostate surgery. In Bennington, Vermont's Old Bennington Cemetery, he was laid to rest. Read More Read Less