Louis but eventually moving to England to work as a banker and a teacher, Eliot won the Nobel Prize in 1948 after a long career that included several poetry collections and a play, Murder in the Cathedral.
Born in St.Louis but eventually moving to England to work as a banker and a teacher, Eliot won the Nobel Prize in 1948 after a long career that included several poetry collections and a play, Murder in the Cathedral. Although The Waste Land and The Hollow Men describe landscapes virtually devoid of the spiritual, he shocked the literary world by converting to Anglicanism in 1927.