Robert Frost (1874-1963) was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University but did not graduate. After many years of working at various jobs, including farming in Derry New Hampshire, Frost finally gained success as a poet at the age of forty with the publication of his second book, North of Boston, in 1914. He taught at Amherst College for more than two decades and won the Pulitizer Prize for poetry four times.