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| Nationality - American |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 26 Sep 1888
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Date of death - 1965 |
| Place of birth
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The poet Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Eliot settled in London in 1915 and became a British citizen in 1927.
Encouraged by Ezra Pound, he began publishing his work in 1915 and soon established himself as an important voice of the modern world.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats published by Faber in 1939 and was Eliot's only children's work. The book was a sequence of light verses and it was this that provided inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical, CATS.
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In 1948 Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. His adult works include "Murder in the Cathedral," "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets."
In January 1957, Eliot stunned virtually everyone who knew him, when, with no prior announcement, he married Valerie Fletcher, his secretary at Faber and Faber; he was sixty-eight years old, she was thirty. After an extraordinarily painful first marriage, followed by many years of guilt and loneliness, Eliot in the last years of life enjoyed an emotional and physical closeness that he had never known before. Unfortunately, his happiness would be short-lived. After several years of declining health, he died of emphysema at his home in London on January 4, 1965, six days before his eighth wedding anniversary. |
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