Robert Frost

Robert Frost (1874–1963) was one of the leading American poets of the twentieth century and a frequent contributor to VQR. The author of more than twenty books of poetry, he won the Pulitzer Prize four times, for New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (1924), Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943). He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his work and read “The Gift Outright,” first published in VQR, at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961.