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T. S. Eliot

1888 - 1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs. Born in St. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. T. S. Eliot is the 20th most popular writer (up from 539th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from United States (up from 557th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Writer.

T.S. Eliot is most famous for his poem "The Waste Land."

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Among writers, T. S. Eliot ranks 20 out of 7,302. Before him are Sophocles, Jules Verne, Virgil, Molière, Miguel de Cervantes, and Jean-Paul Sartre. After him are Ovid, Alexandre Dumas, Albert Camus, Hesiod, Anton Chekhov, and Rumi.

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Among people born in 1888, T. S. Eliot ranks 1. After him are Heinz Guderian, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Fernando Pessoa, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Otto Stern, T. E. Lawrence, Dale Carnegie, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, José Raúl Capablanca, Roland Garros, and Frans Eemil Sillanpää. Among people deceased in 1965, T. S. Eliot ranks 2. Before him is Winston Churchill. After him are Le Corbusier, Malcolm X, Edward Victor Appleton, W. Somerset Maugham, Syngman Rhee, Albert Schweitzer, Farouk of Egypt, Martin Buber, Eli Cohen, and Hermann Staudinger.

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Among people born in United States, T. S. Eliot ranks 24 out of 20,380. Before him are Hillary Clinton (1947), Marilyn Monroe (1926), Abraham Lincoln (1809), James K. Polk (1795), Steven Spielberg (1946), and Elvis Presley (1935). After him are Grace Kelly (1929), Malcolm X (1925), Ronald Reagan (1911), Bruce Lee (1940), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), and George Washington (1732).

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Among writers born in United States, T. S. Eliot ranks 2. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809). After him are Emily Dickinson (1830), Ernest Hemingway (1899), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), George R. R. Martin (1948), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Louisa May Alcott (1832), and Ursula K. Le Guin (1929).

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