Thomas Stearns Eliot
Eliot, in full Thomas Stearns Eliot – Short Biography |
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Birth Name | Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Born | September 26, 1888 |
Birth Place | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
Education | Harvard University (AB, AM, Ph.D. candidate) Merton College, Oxford[1] |
Nationality | American (1888–1927) British (1927–1965) |
Occupation | Poet, essayist, playwright,publisher, critic |
Parents | Henry Ware Eliot Charlotte Champe Stearns |
Known for | Writer, Poet |
Spouse | Vivienne Haigh-Wood (m. 1915; Sep. 1932) Esmé Valerie Fletcher (m. 1957; 1965) |
Relatives | Eliot family |
Notable Awards | Nobel Prize in Literature (1948) Order of Merit (1948) |
Literary movement | Modernism |
Notable works | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915) The Waste Land (1922) Four Quartets (1943) Murder in the Cathedral (1935) |
Language | English |
Period | 1905–1965 |
Died | January 4, 1965, Kensington |