T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 Sept. 1888-4 Jan. 1965) was a British-American poet and literary critic. Born in St. Louis Missouri to a prosperous family of unitarians and educated at Harvard, he would complete his education at Oxford eventually converting to Anglicanism and becoming a British Subject. Eliot was married twice, from 1915 - 1947 to Vivienne Haigh-Wood and to Valerie Fletcher from 1957 to his death.