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T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. Along with being a playwright, literary critic, and editor, he was an American-English poet. Eliot lived In St. Louis for the first eighteen years of his life and attended Harvard University. He left the United States in 1910 for the Sorbonne. He had earned both undergraduate and masters degrees and also contributed several poems to the Harvard Advocate. After he was in …

…are The Sacred Wood (1920), The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933), and After Strange Gods (1934). Eliot was also a playwright, whose dramas include Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and the Cocktail Party. In 1927 Eliot became a British citizen. After a very unhappy marriage, Eliot separated from his first wife in 1933 and remarried to Valerie Fletcher in 1956. He had received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948 and later died in London in 1965