Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco and moved to New England at age 11. He became interested in poetry in high school in Massachusetts and attended Dartmouth College and Harvard but did not earn a degree. He published his first professional poem in 1894 and married his wife Elinor in 1895, who inspired much of his poetry. By the time Frost returned to the US in 1915 he had published two collections and his reputation as a poet was established. He lived and taught in Massachusetts and Vermont for many years, publishing several renowned works until his death in 1963.