The Waste Land

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent American family, moved to England in 1914, became a British citizen in 1927, and became a leading figure in modernist poetry. He is best known for his groundbreaking poem The Waste Land (1922), along with works like Four Quartets (1943), plays such as Murder in the Cathedral (1935), and received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature for his pioneering contributions to poetry.