Robert Frost was an American poet born in 1874 in California. He moved around the United States as a child and published many famous poems throughout his life, including "The Road Not Taken" and "Fire and Ice." Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes for his realistic depictions of rural New England life. He read his poem "The Gift Outright" at John F. Kennedy's inauguration and died in 1963 at the age of 88.