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Robert Frost

Died in 1963

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874, lost his father at eleven and returned to New England with his mother, under the protection of his grandfather. He left Dartmouth and then Harvard, worked as a schoolteacher, journalist and farmer in New Hampshire, and published only a few poems in magazines. After selling his farm, he took his family to England in 1912 and found a publisher there. Back in 1915, he taught in colleges while writing. Four times a Pulitzer winner, he recited a poem from memory at Kennedy's inauguration in 1961 and died in Boston in 1963.

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