Robert Frost

Born in San Francisco in 1874, Robert Frost became one of the most admired American poets of the 20th century. After his father died, his family moved to Massachusetts, and the landscapes and speech of New England would later become central to his work.

He is especially known for poems such as Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken, and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Readers have long been drawn to the way his writing sounds clear and conversational while opening into larger questions about work, nature, isolation, duty, and the choices people make.

Frost received major recognition during his lifetime, including four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry. He died in 1963, but his voice remains one of the most familiar in American literature—warm, sharp, and deeply attentive to ordinary life.