Robert Lee Frost was one of America's leading 20th century pastoral poets. He was mostly associated with rural New England. The poetry of the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner is both traditional and experimental, regional and universal.
             Frost was born in San Francisco, CA on March 26, 1874. When Frost was eleven years old, his father, a journalist and local politician, died and Frost moved with his sister to eastern Massachusetts near his paternal grandparents. He attended Lawrence High School where he wrote his first poems. After he had graduated Frost entered Dartmouth College but stayed for less than a term. Returning home he worked at various jobs including teaching school, factory-hand, and newspaperman. In 1894 he sold his first poem "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York, a literary journal. The next year he married a former school mate Elinor White, with whom he had six children. Frost continued to write and publish poems in magazines. From 1897 to 1899 he studied at Havard College as a special student, but left after two years without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, and supplemented his income by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy.
             In 1912 he sold his farm and used the money from that to take his family to England where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His efforts to establish himself were almost immediately successful. He published "A Boy's Will" (1913) followed by "North Boston" (1914), which gained international reputation. The collection contains some of his best poems: "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man," "Home Burial," "After Apple Picking," and "The Wood Pile."
             In 1915 Frost and his family came back to the States. He purchased a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire with the money he got from the
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