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Frost was born in San Francisco and later moved lo Massachusett s du e to In s fathers death . He moved lo England in 1.912 and hi s first book of poetry A Boys Wish ((^•^I^HT^)) was issued in 1913. A year later , North .of Boston «tfe± . IjEilU-lfc)) followed . The books mad e him popular and he returned to Americ a and settled down there . In 1957, he received two especially coveted honors from Oxford and Cambridge . In his late years, he has been given 18 honorary degrees. Frost is a New England writer by temperament and subject matter . Hi s poems often sound so much like talk . Frosts central theme might be summarized as the way in which human relates to each other and tries to maintain a fruitful affection an d de- pendence . Some of hi s famous poems are Mending Wall ({{l^.t®) ) , Stopping by /./ie Woods on a Snowy Evening ((ItlXftair?)) , The Road Not Taken ((^^.^ 11: 1 1111 1 ^» am} Desert Plwes (;^W) . ^ • 5. William Faulkner (^ • t§£^,1897--1962,;|iB/jt%%) William Faulkner , a southerner from Mississippi wh o produced 18 novels and 3 volumes of short stories in his life , is usually regarded as one of the most important American novelists of the 20th century . Faulkner was born in New Al