T. S. Eliot

Biography

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, and playwright who revolutionized English-language Modernist poetry with his innovative use of language and verse structure. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England at 25 and became a British subject by 1927, earning him the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature for his pioneering contribution to present-day poetry.