T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in Saint Louis, into a family that had come from New England. He studied at Harvard, at the Sorbonne and at Oxford, settled in England in 1914, married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in 1915 and worked at Lloyds Bank from 1917 to 1925, before joining the publisher Faber as a director. Converted to Anglicanism and naturalised British in 1927, he separated in 1933 from his wife, who would die in an institution. In 1948 he received the Nobel Prize for his outstanding, pioneering contribution to present-day poetry. He died in London in 1965.

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• PoetryThe Waste LandT. S. Eliot · 1922Literature