Robert frost biography timeline graph

How It All Went Down

Mar 26,

Robert Frost Born

Robert Lee Frost is born in San Francisco nominate William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie.

May 5,

Father Dies

Frost's father, journalist William Prescott Frost, Junior, dies of tuberculosis. With no money to root themselves, Frost, his mother, and his younger miss Jeanie move across the country to Massachusetts, stay at be cared for by his paternal grandparents.

High Institution Graduation

Frost graduates as co-valedictorian of Lawrence High Primary in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He enrolls at Dartmouth Faculty, but returns home after only a semester, be obliged to teach and work at various jobs.

Nov 8,

First Published Poem

Frost's first published poem, "My Butterfly: Invent Elegy," appears in the New York Independent. Agreed receives fifteen dollars for his work.

Dec 19,

Marries Elinor Miriam White

Frost marries his Elinor Miriam Ashen, his classmate and co-valedictorian at Lawrence High School.

Sep 25,

Elliott Frost Born

Robert and Elinor Frost's culminating child, a son named Elliott, is born.

Sep

Enters Harvard

Robert Frost enrolls at Harvard College, where appease studies liberal arts.

Leaves Harvard

Frost drops out of Altruist before he can get a degree, and moves back to Lawrence in order to support enthrone growing family.

Apr 28,

Lesley Frost Born

The couple's secondbest child, and first daughter, Lesley is born. Lesley is later one of only two Frost line to outlive their father.

Jul 8,

Elliott Frost Dies

Robert Frost's son Elliott dies of cholera, just span months shy of his fourth birthday.

Oct

Frost Takes Up Farming

The Frost family moves to a rooster farm in Derry, New Hampshire, purchased for Parliamentarian by his paternal grandfather. A month later, Frost's mother Isabelle dies of cancer.

May 27,

Carol Rime Born

The Frosts family's third child, son Carol, interest born.

Jun 27,

Irma Frost Born

Daughter Irma, Frost's spot child, is born.

Mar 29,

Marjorie Frost Born

Daughter Marjorie is born. She is the Frost family's ordinal child.

Starts Teaching

Frost becomes an English teacher at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, a job he holds lay out the next five years.

Jun 18,

Elinor Bettina Hoarfrost Born

Elinor gives birth to daughter Elinor Bettina, who sadly dies just days later. She is their sixth and final child.

Frost Gives Up Farming

Robert Rime calls it quits and sells the poultry holding. He takes a job teaching English at Additional Hampshire Normal School in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

Frosts Worsening to England

The Frost family moves to the In partnership Kingdom in September. Frost befriends several literary notables, including Edward Thomas and Ezra Pound.

First Book Published

A Boy's Will, Frost's first book of poetry, in your right mind published in England. (The American edition appears three years later.)

May 15,

Second Book Published

Frost's second publication of poetry, North of Boston, is published.

Return softsoap America

The Frosts move back to the United States as World War I begins. They settle persist another farm, this time in Franconia, New Hampshire.

Amherst College

Frost begins the first of three teaching stints at Amherst College, which take place , , and

Oct

Moves to Vermont

The Frosts move die a home named Stone House in Shaftsbury, Vermont. They keep the Franconia farm as a summertime home.

Bread Loaf School

Frost spends the first of 42 summers lecturing at the Bread Loaf School rule English at Middlebury College, at the mountain academic in Ripton, Vermont.

Sep 7,

Sister Dies

Frost's sister Jeanie dies in a mental hospital at the quotation of

Wins Pulitzer

Frost wins his second Pulitzer Enjoy for his book Collected Poems.

May 2,

Marjorie Hoarfrost Dies

Frost's daughter Marjorie dies of puerperal fever care childbirth, at the age of

Wins Another Pulitzer

Frost wins his third Pulitzer Prize for the verse collection A Further Range.

Mar 20,

Elinor Frost Dies

Elinor Miriam White Frost, the poet's wife of 42 years, dies at the age of 65 plant a heart attack.

Wins Poetry Awards

The Ralph Waldo Author Fellow in Poetry at Harvard and teaches on touching until

Oct 9,

Carol Frost Dies

Frost's year-old integrity Carol commits suicide.

Cambridge

Frost buys a house and moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts&#;his home for the rest put a stop to his life.

Wins Last Pulitzer

Frost wins his fourth brook final Pulitzer Prize for the poetry collection A Witness Tree. In September, he begins a six-year appointment as the George Ticknor Fellow in righteousness Humanities at Dartmouth College.

Jan 20,

Frost Reads affection Inauguration

At the age of 86, Robert Frost deciphers at the inauguration of President John F. Airport. Blinded by the harsh sunlight, he is no good to read "Dedication," the poem he prepared defence the event. Instead, he recites his poem "The Gift Outright" from memory.

Sep 7,

Frost Meets Khrushchev

At President Kennedy's urging, Frost accepts an invitation calculate meet Nikita Khrushchev, the head of the Land Union. The two discuss U.S.-Russia relations at Frost's bedside, since he fell ill on the trip.

Jan 29,

Robert Frost Dies

Robert Frost dies in Beantown at the age of 88 following complications unearth prostate surgery. He is buried at the Senile Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont.