He was born in March 1874 in San Francisco, California.
Only poet to receive four pulitzer prizes for poetry.
On his 75th birthday, the US Senate passed a resolution in his honor which said, "His poems have helped to guide American thought and humor and wisdom, setting forth to our minds a reliable representation of ourselves and of all men."
The poem Home Burial was written nearly eight years after the death of his First son Elinor White.
