Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on this day in history, March 26, 1874. Frost spent the first 11 years of his life in San Francisco until his father, journalist ...

Despite his reputation as a public performer, the poet Robert Frost came uneasily both to readings and lectures of any kind. He was so nervous about public speaking that he once put stones in his ...

There are not that many biographies of biographers. James Boswell is an exception, and biographers like Fawn Brodie and Kitty Kelley, who have gotten into trouble for writing about the likes of Joseph ...

Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man. Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin Boston. Nor was he at home in academia. He dropped out of college ...

Few other figures in American literature have suffered as strangely divided an afterlife as Robert Frost. Even before his death in 1963, he was canonized as a rural sage and beloved by a public raised ...

An explanation is in order. Two books, one fiction, one non-fiction, steeped in the traditions and flavor of the East Coast, have captured the Tribune’s annual Heartland Award. That’s Heartland.

This is the first volume of a projected three, which will amount to a Collected Letters of Robert Frost and displace the Selected Letters of 1964. In June 1957 the poet came to Dublin to receive yet ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, by Adam Plunkett, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 512 pages. Among the countless ways to ...