Robert FrostRobert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California, where he lived the first eleven years of his life. After his father's death he moved with his sister and mother to eastern Massachusetts near his grandparents. He began writing his first poems while in high school in Lawrence, where he also graduated as Valedictorian. Frost went to Dartmouth College in 1892. After college in 1895 he married a wonderful woman named Elinor Miriam White. Robert Frost and his wife Elinor both taught school until about 1897, when Frost went to Harvard College for about two years. After Harvard he returned to Lawrence with his wife because he had health problems. Shortly thereafter, Robert and Elinor had their second child. Like years past, they had decided to move to a farm just across the Massachusetts border in New Hampshire. Over the years they spent on their farm they had six more children, two of whom died at birth. Shortly afterwards, Frost had sold the farm and set sail with his family for Beaconsfield, just outside London. For the first 18 months of living in Beaconsfield, Frost would travel forty minutes on the train to London, where he would wander the streets going into book shops. Shortly after finishing the manuscript of A Boy's Will. In late October of that year, the book was finally accepted by David Nutt for publication the following March. the rolling farmland of Gloucester shire near Dymock. When Frost and his family returned to the United States in February of the following year, he was known as a leading voice in the new...... middle of paper......ter, At the library's October grand opening Robert Frost at Amherst, President Kennedy paid tribute to poetry, to "its tide that lifts all spirits" and to the poet "whose sense of human tragedy fortified him against self-deception and easy consolation." ." Within ten years the poet's public image was destroyed by the appearance of the second volume of Lawrence Thompson's authorized biography, Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1937 (1970), which reviewers took at face value as an accurate account. of a man. Although Frost later had serious doubts about his choice, in 1939 he chose Thompson as his official biographer.