Robert Lee Frostย was born in San Francisco in 1874. When he was ten, his father died and he and his mother moved to New England. He attended school at Dartmouth and Harvard, worked in a mill, taught, and took up farming, before he moved to England, where his first books of poetry,ย A Boyโs Willย (1913) andย North of Bostonย (1914), were published.ย North of Bostonย brought him recognition as the preeminent voice of New England and as one of Americaโs major poets. In 1915 he returned to the United States and settled on a farm in New Hampshire. Four volumes of his poetry,ย New Hampshireย (1923),ย Collected Poemsย (1930),ย A Further Rangeย (1936), andย A Witness Treeย (1942) were all awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 1963.