1888 - 1965
T. S. Eliot was an American-British poet, essayist, and playwright, born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is best known for his groundbreaking poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Waste Land," and "The Hollow Men," which significantly influenced modern literature and earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot was also a prominent critic and helped shape 20th-century literary theory through his essays and works on poetic form.