Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 to William Prescott Frost, Jr., a journalist and zealous Democrat, and Isabelle Moodie, a Scottish schoolteacher. A descendant of early British colonist Nicholas Frost, Frost’s father was originally based in New England but worked as a teacher and an editor of the “San Francisco Evening Bulletin” in California. When William Frost died of tuberculosis in 1885, the family was left with only $8 to support themselves. Isabelle Moodie and...