| T. S. Eliot  AKA Thomas Stearns Eliot
Born: 26-Sep-1888
Birthplace: St. Louis, MO
Died: 4-Jan-1965
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: Emphysema
Remains: Cremated, East Coker
Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
Occupation: Poet, Author Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Hollow Men Wife: Vivien Haigh-Wood (m. 1915, separated 1933)
Wife: Valerie Fletcher (m. 1957, until his death)
High School: Smith Academy, St. Louis, MO (starting 1898)
High School: Milton Academy, MA (starting 1905, one year)
University: Sorbonne (one year)
University: MA, Harvard University (1906-10)
University: Harvard University (1911-14)
Professor: Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard University (1932-33)
The Times Literary Supplement Contributor
Accademia dei Lincei Foreign Member
Nobel Prize for Literature 1948
Emerson Thoreau Medal 1959
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1964
St. Louis Walk of Fame
Renounced US Citizenship 1927
Converted to Anglicanism 29-Jun-1927
Risk Factors: Smoking
Author of books:
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917, poetry)
Poems (1919, poetry)
Ara Vos Prec (1920, poetry)
Three Critical Essays (1920, essays)
The Sacred Wood (1922, essays)
Andrew Marvell (1922, essays)
The Waste Land (1922, poetry)
Poems, 1909-1925 (1925, poetry)
Wanna Go Home, Baby? (1927, poetry)
For Lancelot Andrewes (1928, essays)
Dante (1929, essays)
Tradition and Experiment in Present-Day Literature (1929, essays)
Ash Wednesday (1930, poetry)
Thoughts After Lambeth (1931, essays)
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933, essays)
After Strange Gods (1933, essays)
Elizabethan Essays (1934, essays)
Collected Poems: 1909-1935 (1936, poetry)
Essays Ancient and Modern (1936, essays)
East Coker (1940, poetry)
The Idea of a Christian Society (1940, essays)
Burnt Norton (1941, poetry)
The Dry Salvages (1941, poetry)
Four Quartets (1943)
Wrote plays:
Sweeney Agonistes (1932, poetry)
The Rock (1934)
Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
Family Reunion (1939)
Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #2239 (22 cents, issued 26-Sep-1986)
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