Linocut print of T. S. Eliot by Paul Peter Piech.

T.S. Eliot was an American poet, writer, playwright and literary critic who spent much of his life living and working in England before becoming a British subject in 1927. He is regarded as a literary giant of the twentieth century, and a notable modernist poet. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 for his outstanding and pioneering contribution to poetry.