Give a pen portrait of T S Eliot.
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Born Thomas Stearns Eliot
26 September 1888
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died 4 January 1965 (aged 76)
London, England
Occupation Poet, essayist, playwright, publisher, critic
Citizenship American (1888–1927)
British (1927–1965)
Education AB in philosophy (Harvard, 1909)
PhD (cand) in philosophy (Harvard, 1915–1916)[1]
Alma mater Harvard University
Merton College, Oxford
Period 1905–1965
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)
Notable awards Nobel Prize in Literature (1948)
Order of Merit (1948)
Spouse Vivienne Haigh-Wood
(m. 1915; sep. 1932)
Esmé Valerie Fletcher
(m. 1957; his death 1965)
Parents Henry Ware Eliot
Charlotte Champe Stearns
Relatives Eliot family
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. Wikipedia
Born: 26 September 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Died: 4 January 1965, Kensington
Poems: The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, Preludes, more
Plays: Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party, The Family Reunion, The Confidential Clerk