Important events in his life
1888: September 26: Thomas Stearns Eliot is born in St. Louis, Missouri to Henry Ware and Charlotte Stearns Eliot.
1898: T.S. Eliot becomes a student at Smith Academy in St. Louis.
1905: Eliot goes to Milton Academy in Massachusetts.
1910-11: After finishing Bachelors and Masters Degrees at Harvard, he spends a year in Sorbonne, Paris.
1911-14: Eliot returns to Harvard to study philosophy as a graduate student.
1914: T.S. Eliot goes to England and meets Ezra Pound.
1915: Marries Vivien Haigh-Wood on June 26th.
1916: Eliot begins working as teacher at Highgate Junior School.
1917: Eliot takes a position at Lloyds Bank in the Colonial and Foreign Department.
1921: Since he was feeling very sick and worn out, Eliot takes some time off from Lloyds Bank. He finishes the drafts of The Waste Land during this break.
1922: The Waste Land published (one of his most famous poems).
1925: Poems 1909-1925 published. Eliot joins the publishing house of Faber & Gwyer, and leaves Lloyds bank.
1927: T.S. Eliot enters the Church of England and gets his British citizenship.
1933: Obtains legal separation from Vivien because he had a bad marriage and didn’t want a divorce.
1947: Vivien Eliot dies.
1948: Wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
1957: Married Valerie Fletcher on January 10.
1963: Collected Poems 1909-1962.
1965: Dies on January 4th.