Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,
The Waste Land,
The Hollow Men,
Ash Wednesday, and
Four Quartets; the plays
Murder in the Cathedral and
The Cocktail Party; and the essay
Tradition and the Individual Talent. Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S._Eliot