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Thomas Stearns Eliot (Lyricist/Poet/Critic) Born in St. Louis in 1888, he settled in England in 1915. Already famous for his works Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) and The Waste Land (1922), Eliot's interests began to move toward playwriting in the mid-1920s. His best known play, Murder in the Cathedral, was commissioned for the Canterbury feestival of 1935. His wards include the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature (both 1948), the Hanseatic Goethe Prize (1954) and the Dante Gold Medal (1959). Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) provided much of the book for this musical. He received the Tony Award for the book of Cats in 1983, 18 years after his death. |