Author Background

Robert Frost had an interesting life.  Born in California, his family moved to New England when he was 11 due to the death of his father. In New England his mother supported them by teaching in a variety of schools.  Frost then proceeded to study at both Dartmouth and Harvard, two Ivy League schools, during his early adulthood.  Then, he began work as a farmer in New Hampshire while publishing various poems in small local papers. He then took a teaching job and worked there until 1912, when he moved to England with the idea of working on his writing in order to become a famous poet.  By 1915 he was already well known and decided to move back to the United States to once again live on a farm in New Hampshire, where he wrote much of his vast collection of famous poetry, and where he lived as a rural poet in order to find the inspiration for his nature themed writings. (Literature for Composition 10^th ed. 624)