Robert Frost

At the young age of only eleven Frost’s father passed away. Soon after his death the family left California to settle in Massachusetts. As young Frost grew-up he attended high school in that state, later would enter Dartmouth College, but would remain there less that one semester. Later he returned to Massachusetts where he would be a school teacher along with two other jobs he held as a mill worker and a newspaper reporter. Then in 1895 Frost married Elinor White whom he had been co-valedictorians with in high school.

His mother, Isabelle Moodie Frost, came into the United State when she was 12 years old. Frost was born a year after his parents had gotten married. After Frost's father had died in 1885, he moved with his family to New England where he attended Lawrence High School. "Frost had published several poems in the school magazine and was named class poet." "He graduated in 1892, sharing valedictorian honors with Elinor White, to whom he became engaged."

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. His father was William Frost, a Harvard graduate who was on his way westward when he stopped to teach at Bucknell Academy in Pennsylvania for extra money. His mother, Isabelle Moodie began teaching math at Bucknell while William was there, and they got married and moved to San Francisco. They were constantly changing houses, and William went from job to job as a journalist. About a year after moving to San Francisco, they had Robert.

His father died in 1885 when Robert was only eleven; this caused the family to uproot from California to move to Massachusetts. This is where he would go to high school and eventually become a high school teacher. In 1895 he married Elinor White, the girl he shared Valedictorian honors with at Lawrence High School in Massachusetts. At age 38 he sold the farm he was living on to move his family to England where he could devote himself to his writing. His goal was to establish himself as a writer; his work was an immediate success.

His father, a journalist and local politician, died when Frost was eleven years old. His Scottish mother resumed her career as a schoolteacher to support her family. The family lived in Lawrence, Massachusetts, with Frost's paternal grandfather. In 1892 Frost graduated from a high school and attended Dartmouth College for a few months. Over the next ten years he held a number of jobs.

On May 5, 1885 Frost's father dies of tuberculosis. The family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with grandparents. In the following year the family moved again, this time to Salem Depot, New Hampshire. Frost's mother began teaching and Robert and Jeanie enter the fifth grade. During 1888 and 1889, Robert Lee Frost graduated one year ahead of the rest of his class from Lawrence High School.

They settled in Salem, Massachusetts, where his grandfather lived and offered them a home. He started high school in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he began to write and he published his first poem. After high school he attended Dartmouth College however he left and started to work as a reporter for the Lawrence Daily American. Frost moved from job to job, working in mills, as a reporter for newspaper, teaching and writing poetry. He became engaged to Elinor White, his classmate and in 1895 Frost married her; they had six children.

This move proved to be successful when Frost’s first book A Boy’s Will was published in 1913, followed by North of Boston in 1914; both books appeared in the United States as well by the time that the Frost family returned in 1915. In 1938 Frost lost his wife to illness. New Hampshire garnered Frost the first of his unmatched four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, followed by Frost's Collected Poems in 1930, A Further Range in 1936, and A Witness Tree in 1942. Frost’s crowning public moment was his recitation of "The Gift Outright" at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in January of 1960. He died on January 29, 1963.

He graduated as valedictorian in High School in 1892 and attended Dartmouth College, but quit shortly after he started. Two years later he sold his first work "My Butterfly: An Elegy" and later that year he married Elinor White. He attempted school again at Harvard but left before getting his degree. The next 10 years he wrote poems and worked small jobs throughout New Hampshire. In 1912 he moved his wife and four kids to England to work on poetry full time.

Brittany Hendershot E3H Research Paper Mrs. Colbert The First All American Poet: Robert Frost Biography Robert Frost was born on March 26th, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He was born to Isabelle Moodie Frost and William Prescott Frost. William Frost, a Harvard graduate, worked for the San Francisco Daily Evening Post, and Frost’s mother was a school teacher. After spending twelve years in San Francisco, Frost moved to the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts after his father died of tuberculosis. While attending Lawrence High School, Frost published several poems in the school magazine and was named class poet.