T. S. Eliot

Born in Missouri in 1888, T. S. Eliot was educated at Harvard before relocating to England, eventually renouncing his U. S. citizenship and converting to Anglicanism. As a pioneer of literary Modernism, he departed from Victorian sentimentality to explore themes of spiritual collapse and post-war fragmentation. His groundbreaking works, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land and Four Quartets, defined twentieth-century poetry and earned him the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also a long-time editor at Faber and Faber, Eliot’s profound influence on modern literature endured until his death in 1965.