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Remembering T.S Eliot: Poet, Editor and Friend

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19881218
Author:Robert Giroux

I FIRST met T.S. Eliot in the spring of 1946, when I was 32 and he was two years short of 60. The meeting took place in the offices of Harcourt, Brace and Company, where six years earlier I had been hired as an editor by Frank Morley, a friend and former colleague of Eliot's at Faber and Faber. The poet had debarked from the Caronia that morning, hoping to lunch with Morley, who was not free. Since I did not know this when Morley introduced us, I was dumbfounded when Eliot said, "May I take you to lunch, Mr. Giroux?" To me it was as unnerving as an invitation to dine with Don Giovanni's ...

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