Robert Frost: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Robert Lee Frost
Born	March 26, 1874 • San Francisco • California
Died	January 29, 1963 (aged 88) • Boston • Massachusetts
Title / Office	poet laureate (1958-1959)
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize • Bollingen Prize (1962)
Notable Works	“A Boy’s Will” • “A Further Range” • “A Witness Tree” • “After Apple-Picking” • “In the Clearing” • “Mending Wall” • “Mountain Interval” • “New Hampshire” • “North of Boston” • “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” • “Storm Fear” • “The Death of the Hired Man” • “The Road Not Taken”

Robert Frost wrote the poem "The Road Not Taken" as a joke about his friend.
Frost was the first of only five poets to recite a poem at a U.S. presidential inauguration.