Robert Frost (1874-1963) was born in San Francisco, California, and is most identified with rural New England. His debut A Boy's Will (David Nutt, 1913) and North of Boston (David Nutt, 1914) were first published in England. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times, for New Hampshire (1924), Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943). He recited The Gift Outright at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. He wrote in traditional forms and blank verse.
