grandson, William Prescott Frost is born.
1927- Frost moves to Amherst to start his teaching job and his
daughter Marjorie goes to Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment.
1928- Frost sails to France with his wife, who suffers from
depression, and Marjorie. Frost publishes his West Running
Brook and also an extended edition of Selected Poems.
1929- His sister Jeanie dies.
1930- Frost gets elected into the American Academy of Arts and
letters. Collected Poem gets published.
1931- Frost wins Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poem and his second
granddaughter is born.
1934- Marjorie's first daughter is born in March. Marjorie suffers
from puerperal fever and dies May 2. Her daughter is taken
care of by her brother Carol.
1938- His wife Elinor ends up dieing from heart failure. He asks
Kathleen Morrison to marry him but she turns him down.
Frost quits his job at Amherst College.
1939- Frost gets a Gold Metal Award from the national Institute of
Arts and Letters.
1940- His son, Carol, suffers from depression after his mother�s
death and commits suicide.
1942- Frost writes, A Winter Tree, and dedicates it to Kathleen
Morrison.
1943- Frost wins the Pulitzer Prize for �A Witness Tree� and he
becomes the first person to win four Pulitzer Prizes.
1945- Frost�s �A Masque of Reason� is published.
1947- Frost places his daughter, Irma, into the state mental hospital
in Concord, New Hampshire. Steeple Bush and A Masque of
Mercy are published.
1949- Complete Poems of Robert Frost 1949 are published.
1958- Frost gets invited to the White House by President Eisenhower.
He is appointed the job of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of
Congress.
1960- Congress passes a bill that gives Frost a gold medal in honor
of his poetry. Frost gets invited to the inaugural ceremonies by
Kennedy.
1961- The state of Vermont legislature names Frost �Poet Laureate
of Vermont.�
1962- An anonymous individual donates $3.5 million to construct
The Robert Frost Library at Amherst. Doctors find that he
has cancer in his prostate and bladder.
1963- Frost wins the Bollingen Prize for Poetry. He dies on
January 29 and his ashes are buried in the Frost family plot
in Old Bennington, Vermont.
All information from Robert Frost Biographical Information.
www.americaslibrary.gov
