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|Born||Thomas Stearns Eliot 26 September 1888 St. Louis,
Missouri, United States |Died|| 4 January 1965 (aged 76) London,
England, United Kingdom |Occupation||Poet, Dramatist, Literary
critic| |Nationality||Born American, became a British subject in
1927| |Notable award(s)|| Nobel Prize in Literature Thomas
Stearns Eliot, OM ( 26 September 1888– 4 January 1965), was a
poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1948. He wrote the poems The Love Song of
J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash
Wednesday and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral
and The Cocktail Party; and the essay " Tradition and the
Individual Talent". Eliot was born in the United States, moved
to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25), and became a British
subject in 1927 at the age of 39. Of his nationality and its
role in his work, T.S. Eliot said: "[My poetry] wouldn