Robert Frost (1874Ð1963) was born in San Francisco. Frost's father died when the boy was eleven. He and his mother then moved to New England, where Frost lived for most of the rest of his life. He attended high school in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and graduated at the top of his class, sharing the position of valedictorian with Elinor White, whom he later married. After attending Dartmouth and Harvard and working as a teacher and farmer in New Hampshire, Frost moved with his family to England where, in 1913, he published his first book of poetry, A Boy's Will. In this book and in later volumes such as North of Boston, Mountain Interval, New Hampshire, West-Running Brook, and A Further Range, Frost wrote about the people and landscape of New England in verse that made him the most popular poet of this century. In later years, Frost taught at various universities and gave many public readings of his works. He received honorary doctorates from Cambridge and Oxford and was invited to read a poem at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.