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Robert Frost was an American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes. As a special guest at President John F. Frost spent his first 40 years as an unknown.

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He exploded on the scene after returning from England at the beginning of World War I. He died of complications from prostate surgery on January 29, Frost was born on March 26, , in San Francisco, California. He spent the first 11 years of his life there, until his journalist father, William Prescott Frost Jr. Following his father's passing, Frost moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, to the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts.

They moved in with his grandparents, and Frost attended Lawrence High School. After high school, Frost attended Dartmouth College for several months, returning home to work a slew of unfulfilling jobs. Beginning in , Frost attended Harvard University but had to drop out after two years due to health concerns. He returned to Lawrence to join his wife.

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In , Frost moved with his wife and children to a farm in New Hampshire — property that Frost's grandfather had purchased for them—and they attempted to make a life on it for the next 12 years. Though it was a fruitful time for Frost's writing, it was a difficult period in his personal life and followed the deaths of two of his young children.

During that time, Frost and Elinor attempted several endeavors, including poultry farming, all of which were fairly unsuccessful.