With a Colt pistol pointed dead at the doctor, threatening to shoot if anything happened to his expecting wife, a very erratic William Frost welcomed his son Robert Lee Frost into the world in San Francisco California on March 26, 1874. Frost was named part after his grandfather and after the defeated Civil war general Lee. Thinking that he was the product of a premarital mistake, Robert tried to hide it by saying he was born a …showed first 75 words of 661 total…

…showed last 75 words of 661 total…from 1949-1963. With many successes and awards from every corner of literature, Frost read his poem “The Gift Outright” at president John F. Kennedy’s inauguration and even received the Congressional Gold Medal from Kennedy on his 80th birthday in 1962. Frost had always said that he wanted to die on the trail in Vermont, but instead died in a hospital room from infected blood clots in his left leg on January 29, 1963. He was 88 years old.