Biographies: September 26
T.S. Eliot sits at a desk covered with papers, reaching for a document, with a typewriter and lamp in the background at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Featured Biography T.S. Eliot

Born on this day in 1888, T.S. Eliot, a leader of poetry’s Modernist movement, revitalized English poetry with experiments in diction, style, and versification and exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture.