Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874. His father, William Prescott Frost, was a native of New England, and his mother, Isabelle Moodie Frost, was a Scotswoman who emigrated from Edinburgh. She went to school in Columbus, Ohio, and became a schoolteacher. Isabelle and William met while teaching in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. Robert Frost was named, by his father, after the South's distinguished general, Robert E. Lee. Frost descended from a puritanic …showed first 75 words of 733 total…

…showed last 75 words of 733 total…Prize for poetry four times. On his seventy - fifth, and eighty - fifth birthdays the United States Senate adopted a formal resolution extending felicitations to him. Frost was invited to participate in the inaugurations ceremony of John F. Kennedy where he read the poem, "The Gift Outright." Then in August of 1962, Kennedy sent him to Russia on a "good-will mission." On January 29, 1963, Robert Lee Frost died from the aftereffects of an operation for cancer.