Birthdate: September 26, 1888

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Died: January 4, 1965

American-born British poet T. S. Eliot is best remembered for his poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, and Ash Wednesday, and his plays such as Murder in the Cathedral. He won the Nobel Prize for literature and became a prominent figure of Modernist poetry.