Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. Along with being a playwright, literary critic, and editor, he was an American-English poet. Eliot lived In St. Louis for the first eighteen years of his life and attended Harvard University. He left the United States in 1910 for the Sorbonne. He had earned both undergraduate and masters degrees and also contributed several poems to the Harvard Advocate. After he was in Paris for a year, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in philosophy, but returned to Europe and settled in England in 1914.…
