TS Eliot was one of many award-winning book authors. 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 September 26, 1888 in Saint-Louis. He was the youngest of seven children of Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Eliot. In 1906-1910, 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 moved to England where his poems attracted the attention of the American poet Ezra Portland. He studied at the University of Marbury, Germany, isolated by war. He resided at Merton College, Oxford. He published poetry in Chicago. An explosion in England in 1915. In 1917 he was an employee of Lloyd's bank. Deputy editor of Egoist. In 1920 he wrote a poem called The Sacred Wood and Began the Waste Land. In 1922 Editor-in-chief of the Criterion, until its closure in 1939. Dial Prize for The Waste Land. In 1924, he published “The Four Elizabethan Playwrights”. In 1925 he published The Hollow Men and his poems, in 1909-25. Eliot joined Faber and Gayer, later and Faber, publishers. In 1926, Two “Fragments” (from Sweeney's Agonists). In 1927-1931 he became a member of the Anglican Church and a British citizen. He composed Ariel Poems between 1927 and 1931. For Lancelot Andrews, 1928, Ash – Wednesday, 1930, Coriolanus, 1931. Thoughts after Lambeth, 1931. During 1923 and 1933, TS made his first visit to America since 1914 . He delivered Charles Eliot Norton teaches at Harvard. They were published as Use of Poetry and the use of Critical in 1933. He also gave the Page Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia....... middle of article...... the greatest poetry was published in the Smith Academy Record in 1905 (James 1). Eliot's first major poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," reveals his original and highly developed style. His “Ash Wednesday,” published in 1930, was far from different from The Waste Land in tone and mood. It was more of a musical emphasis; with some hope (Harmon 1). His whole life was filled with lectures and poems. He was a very hard worker when it came to writing. And he was very good at what he did. Works Cited "Eliot, TS" World Book Online Infofinder. World Book, 2014. Web. April 28, 2014.Bloom, Harold. TS Eliot. Broomall, PA: 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, TS "TS Eliot". January 2009, New York: Salem Press.