Short biography of Robert Lee Frost

  Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. His father, William Prescott Frost Jr., was  a teacher and later became an editor with San Francisco Evening Bulletin.   His mother, Isabelle Moodie Frost, was an immigrant from Scotland. His father was a journalist who dabbled in politics, was rebellious and named his son after the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. William Frost was also an alcoholic and tubercular. Frost’s father was also an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector and died on 5 May, 1885.

Robert attended Lawrence High School, where his first poems were published in the school's bulletin. In 1892, Robert Frost graduated from Lawrence High School. Frost entered Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in September 1892, but left after one semester.

Despite being popular for his rural life poetry, Frost was brought up in the city. His first published poem, "My Butterfly: An Elegy", appeared in the New York magazine "The Independent" in 1894, and he eventually self-published a book of poems. Frost sold out his first poem called"My Butterfly: An Elegy" in 1894 for $15.

In 1912, Frost with his family shifted to Great Britain, lived initially in Glasgow. Later, he settled in Beaconsfield outside London. His first poetry book titled “A Boy's Will” was published the very next year.

During the years 1916-20, 1923-24, and 1927-38, Frost taught English at Amherst College, in Massachusetts. He used to influence and encourage his students to bring sound of the human voice in their writings.

At the age of 20, in 1894, he proposed marriage to Elinor Miriam White, who agreed and the two tied the nuptial knot. They had six children namely son Elliot, daughter Lesley Frost Ballantine, son Carol, daughter Irma, daughter Marjorie and daughter Elinor Bettina (died just three days after her birth in 1907). Robert Frost died on January 29, 1963 in Boston. . Frost was buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont.