T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot was born on Sept. 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He died Jan. 4, 1965 at the age of 76 in London England. Eliot came from a prominent family and was very well educated. Eliot was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. His best known poems are "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Waste Land," "The Hollow Man," and "Ash Wednesday." He also wrote a few plays and essays. He won the Noble Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot moved to England in 1914 and became a British subject in 1927. Eliot marriage was a struggle, and he had contemplated leaving his wife. They separated after he accepted a teaching job at Harvard Univ. She was later admitted to a mental hospital and he never saw her again until her death. He later married again to a woman 38 years his junior. They were married until he passed away.