| Timeline |
| 1874 |
Born 26 March in San Francisco |
| 1885 |
Father dies, family leaves California and settles in Massachusetts |
| 1892 |
Enrols at Dartmouth College |
| 1892 |
Graduates from Lawrence High School |
| 1895 |
Marries Elinor White |
| 1897 |
Attends Harvard College but leaves without a degree |
| 1912 |
Sells the family farm and moves to England, to devote himself entirely to writing |
| 1913 |
A Boy's Will published |
| 1914 |
North of Boston published |
| 1915 |
Returns to the U.S., buys a farm in Franconia, N.H |
| 1916 |
Mountain Interval published |
| 1923 |
New Hampshire published |
| 1924 |
Receives a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire |
| 1930 |
Selected Poems published |
| 1930 |
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 1930 |
Wins a second Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems |
| 1936 |
A Further Range published |
| 1936 |
A Further Range published |
| 1937 |
A Further Range earns him a third Pulitzer Prize |
| 1938 |
Wife Elinor dies of heart disease |
| 1942 |
A Witness Tree published |
| 1942 |
Fourth Pulitzer Prize for A Witness Tree |
| 1945 |
A Masque of Reason published |
| 1947 |
A Masque of Mercy published |
| 1947 |
Bush published |
| 1949 |
Appointed Saimpson Lecturer for Life by Amherst College |
| 1954 |
Travels on good-will mission to Brazil, at the State Department's request |
| 1957 |
Returns to England to receive honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge |
| 1957 |
Travels on good-will mission to Britain, at the State Department's request |
| 1958 |
Named poetry consultant for the Library of Congress
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| 1961 |
Reads at John F. Kennedy's Presidential inauguration |
| 1961 |
Travels on good-will mission to Greece, at the State Department's request |
| 1962 |
In the Clearing published |
| 1962 |
Awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and the Edward MacDowell Medal |
| 1962 |
Sent to the Soviet Union as a cultural envoy by Kennedy |
| 1963 |
Dies in Boston 29 January |
