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Eliot, T. S.

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From: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Date: 20030101
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T. S. Eliot

Born: September 26, 1888
St. Louis, Missouri
Died: January 4, 1965
London, England
American-born English author, poet, critic, playwright, editor, and publisher

T. S. Eliot, American-English author, was one of the most significant poets writing in English in the twentieth century, as well as one of the most influential critics, an interesting playwright, editor, and publisher.

Eliot's youth

On September 26, 1888, Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, a member of the third generation of a New England family that had come to St. Louis in 1834. Eliot's ...

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