TS Eliot was one of many award-winning book writers. TS Eliot was known as a "hard working writer". He published his first book in 1915, beginning his career as a writer/poet. TS Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis. He was the youngest of seven children born to Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Eliot. In 1906-1910, undergraduate student at Harvard. He discovered the symbolists and Lafarge. He was editor of the Harvard Advocate, a literary magazine. In 1911-14 he was a graduate student in philosophy at Harvard. In 1914 he settled in England where his poems attracted the attention of the American poet Ezra Portland. He studied at the University of Marbury in Germany, which was cut off by the war. He resided at Merton College, Oxford. He published in poetry in Chicago. An explosion in England in 1915. In 1917 he was an employee of Lloyd's bank. Assistant editor of The Egoist. In 1920 he wrote a poem entitled The Sacred Grove and the Beginning of the Waste Land. In 1922 Editor of the Criterion, until its closure in 1939. Dial Award for The Waste Land. In 1924 he published "The Four Elizabethan Playwrights". In 1925 he published The Hollow Men and poems, in 1909-25. Eliot joined the publishers Faber and Gayer, later and Faber. In 1926, Two “Fragments” (by Sweeney Agonists). In 1927-31 he became a member of the Church of England and a British citizen. He made Ariel Poems between 1927 and 1931. For Lancelot Andrews, 1928, Ash – Wednesday, 1930, Coriolan, 1931. Thoughts After Lambeth, 1931. In the years 1923 and 1933, T.S. had his first visit to America since 1914 . He delivered Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard. They were published as Use of Poetry and the Use of criticism in 1933. He also gave the Page Barbour lectures at the University of Virginia....... middle of paper......the greatest poem was published in the Smith Academy Record in 1905 (James 1). Eliot's first important poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," revealed his original and highly developed style. His Ash Wednesday, published in 1930, was hardly different from The Waste Land in tone and mood. There was more musical emphasis; provisionally hopeful (Harmon 1). His whole life was filled with lectures and written poems. He was a hard worker at writing. And he was very good at what he did. Works Cited"Eliot, T.S." World Book Online Infofinder. World Book, 2014. Web. April 28, 2014.Bloom, Harold. T. S. Eliot. Broomall, Pennsylvania: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Print.James, Ryan. TS Eliot, New York: Great Neck Publishing - 2005"Eliot, TS "Britannica Biographies. Encyclopedia Britannica 2, May 2014.Eliot, T. S. "T. S. Eliot". January 2009, New York: Salem Press.