Robert Frost was an American poet born in 1874 in California. He published his first poem in 1890 and graduated valedictorian from Lawrence High School in 1892. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard but did not complete degrees. He married his wife Elinor in 1895 and they had 6 children, though some died young. Frost received numerous honors including 4 Pulitzer Prizes for his pastoral poetry which used rural New England settings to explore universal themes of human psychology, experience, and the natural world. He was known for his skill with language, form, tone, and use of nature as both subject and backdrop.