RobertFrost

• Personal Life Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 to the parents of Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. He was Given the name Robert Lee Frost after the Genral Robert E. Lee His mother was a school teacher and his father was a journalist and also a teacher. His father had strayed from New Hampshire to San Fransisco where he hoped to kick off his journalist career. His father turned into a heavy drinker and gambler which left there family in a dire need for a better financial situation. His father died shortly after going to San Fransisco after contracting Tuberculosis. After his father died his grandfather took care of him and gave him a good schooling. Robert, Isabelle and his sister Jeanie Florence burried their father in his birthplace, Lawrence Massachusetts.

From both of his parents being teachers he was exposed at a very young age to Shakespear, Robert Burns and William Wordsworth. Form this young exposure he began writing poetry for school. There he wrote "La Noche Triste"(1890) which was published in the school newspaper. He was very sharp in the subjects of botany, history, Latin and Greek and also played football. He was top of his class when he graduated school and from then on he went to the Ivy League school Dartmouth in Hanover New Hampshire. Frost got his frist recognition for poetry when he wrote "My butterfly: An Elegy" and it was published in the New York, //Independant// magazine. From there he married Elinor Miriam White on December 19, 1895. She was his co-valedictorian and his high school sweetheart. Tegether they would have six children. Two sons Elliot and Carol and four daughters Leslie, Irma, Marjorie and Elinor Bettina. They had a wonderful life together. After his wife had died he became attracted to a Kathleen (Kay) Morrison whom he gave a job to as a secretary and an advisor. Robert Forst passed away on January 29, 1963. His passing was not gone unnoticed.

•Professional Life him and his wife were teachers and he was a very accomplished writer. His awards and recognitions are as follows: Major works • Awards won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in the following years: 1923 //New Hampshire// 1931 //Collected Poems// 1937 //A Further Range// 1943 //A Witness Tree// Russell Loines Poetry Prize, 1931 Gold Medal for Poetry, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1939 Gold Medal, Poetry Society of America, 1941. Gold Medal, Limited Editions Club, 1949 Award, Academy of American Poets, 1953 First Annual Poetry Award, Boston Arts Festival, 1954 Medal for Distinguished Service in the Fields of Am. Literature, Theodore Roosevelt Society, 1954 Medal of Honor, New York University 1956 Gold Medal, Holland Society of New York, 1957 Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, Poetry Society of America, 1958 Medal for Achievements in the Arts, Signet Society, Harvard College, 1958 Emerson-Thoreau Medal, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1958 Huntington Hartford Foundation Award, 1958 Congressional Gold Medal, 1960 Edward MacDowell Medal, 1962 Congressional Medal presented by Pres. J. F. Kennedy, 1962 Bollingen Prize in Poetry, 1963

• Period and/or Style Robert Frost wrote in a poetry style and liked to use descriptive language. • Favorite Themes Frost liked to write about romance and about nature.