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Writer of the Month Robert Lee Frost Robert Lee Frost was a highly regarded American poet. He was well-known for depicting the rural life in New England during the twentieth century and his command of American colloquial speech to decipher social phenomena and philosophy in life. His works were, and still are, greatly praised. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California on 26th March, 1874. His mother was Isabelle Moodie, while his father was William Prescott Frost, Jr. Frost’s family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts upon his father’s death. Frost graduated from the Lawrence High school, where he published his first poem in his high school’s magazine, in 1892. Later, he attended Dartmouth College for a short period of time and was accepted into the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity. After that, He returned home to work: helping his mother to teach, delivering newspapers and changing arclight carbon filament. However, he did not enjoy any of these jobs. At the age of twenty, Frost sold his first poem, “My butterfly. An elegy” to the New York Independent. Proud of his own achievement, Frost proposed to Elinor Miriam White, but was rejected as she wanted to finish school first. After her graduation, on 19th October, 1985, they married in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Frost attended Harvard University during 1897-1899 but he dropped off due to illness. Later, he went to a farm in Derry Hampshire, bought by his grandfather before his death for Frost and his wife. His farming was unsuccessful and he rejoined the field of education. In 1912, Frost and his family sailed to Great Britain and settled in a small town near London named Beaconsfield. In the following two years, Frost published his first two poetry volumes, A Boy’s Will and North of Boston. When World War I broke out, Frost returned to the US and bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire. During the years, Frost had won three Pulitzer Prizes for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes in 1924, Collected Poems in 1931, A Further Range in 1937 and A Witness Tree in 1943. Although Frost had never graduated from college, he received more than forty honorary degrees from various universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge and Oxford. He was also the only person who received two honorary degrees from Dartmouth College. In 1960, he received the United States Congressional Gold Medal. Two years later, on 29th January, 1963, he died in Boston. Reference: http://www.poemhunter.com/robert-frost/biography/
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