who wrote the poem the road less traveled
August 18, 2015 at 6:20 PM EDT. 153686 153691 153691 What weâve gotten wrong about this Robert Frost classic Itâs one of the most famous poems in American history. But David Orr, poetry columnist for The New York Times, says âThe Road Not Takenâ by Robert Frost is widely misinterpreted. Jeffrey Brown interviews Orr about why he thinks Americans have got the poem all wrong, which is the subject of his new book of the same name.