Eliot, commonly known as T.S. Eliot, was an American-British poet, essayist, and playwright born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is renowned for his influential works such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land," which helped reshape modernist poetry in the 20th century. Eliot received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 for his outstanding contribution to literature.