T. S. Eliot - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1948
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T. S. Eliot

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1948
for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry
Citizenship
United States United States United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
9/26/1888
place of birth
St. Louis
date of death
1/4/1965
place of death
London, Kensington
Lived
76 years

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member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1960
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 10/5/1947
  • James Joyce Society
  • Phi Beta Kappa Society
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
occupation
  • bank teller
    • start time: 1917
    • end time: 1925
  • Nobel Prize winner
  • playwright
  • lyricist
  • university teacher
  • children's writer
  • literary critic
  • essayist
  • short story writer
  • social critic
  • poet
  • screenwriter
  • writer
educated at
  • Eliot House
  • University of Paris
  • Milton Academy
  • Harvard University
  • Harvard College
  • Merton College
notable work
  • The Waste Land
  • Four Quartets
  • Ash Wednesday
  • The Hollow Men
employer
  • University of Chicago
  • Birkbeck, University of London
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