T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, into a prominent family; his grandfather had moved there to found a Unitarian church. He studied at Harvard University, the University of Paris and Merton College, Oxford. In 1914 he settled in England, and the next year he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood. He taught for a time and from 1917 worked at Lloyds Bank in London while writing poetry. 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' (1915) and The Waste Land (1922) made him one of the leading poets of the modern movement. In 1925 he became a director of the publishing firm Faber and Faber. In 1927 he joined the Church of England and became a British subject. His later poems include Four Quartets, and he wrote verse plays such as Murder in the Cathedral (1935), about the death of Thomas Becket. His light verse in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) later inspired the musical Cats. In 1948 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. After Vivienne's death, he married Valerie Fletcher in 1957. He died in London in 1965.

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Faith: Identified as Anglo-Catholic, calling himself 'anglo-catholic in religion'. Source: Wikipedia