Why is the main library named for Robert Frost?
Robert Frost was associated with Amherst College from the time he gave his first reading on campus in 1916 until his death in 1963. Off and on over the years he served as Professor of English, and from 1949 to 1963 he was the Simpson Lecturer in Literature. The library building was given by the Charitable Trust of the Haas Family of Philadelphia on the condition that it be named the Robert Frost Library. The poet was present at the announcement of the new college library in 1962. For more details, see Robert Frost and Amherst College. For a chronology of the library, see The Amherst College Library, 1821-1999.
