T. S. Eliot

Playwright, Author

1888 – 1965

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Who was T. S. Eliot?

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth century's major poets." Born in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.

Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets. He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".

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Born
Sep 26, 1888
St. Louis
Also known as
  • Thomas Stearns Eliot
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Eliot, Thomas Stearns
  • Tom
Parents
Spouses
Religion
  • Anglicanism
Nationality
  • England
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Harvard University
  • Merton College, Oxford
  • Milton Academy
  • University of Oxford
Lived in
  • St. Louis
  • Missouri
Died
Jan 4, 1965
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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