Frost's Early Adult Years and Personal Life

Robert Lee Frost was born in March 26th, 1874 in San Francisco, California to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie. He moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts after his father death in 1885. Frost was interesting in writing because his father was a writer as well, for the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. He published his first poem in his high school's magazine. During his high school years he went to Dartmouth College and later attended Harvard University in Boston. He never earned a college degree. He tried different occupations such as teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. No matter what he tried to do with his life, his real passion was writing poetry. His first published poem, "My Butterfly" appeared on November 8th, 1894 in the New York newspaper, The Independent.