T.S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended prominent academies through his youth, eventually getting accepted into Harvard, and later the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Due to the start of World War I he was unable to finish his PhD, and soon found himself living in London, married, and working as a bank clerk. It was during this time that Eliot threw himself into his writing, and became known as “one of the most daring innovators of twentieth century poetry”. He also wrote plays and popular essays. Eliot went on to found and edit a literary journal for several years, and left his bank job for a position at Faber & Faber Publishers, where he worked with young poets. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot, who was a heavy smoker for many years, died of emphysema on January 4, 1965.
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