- Was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in literature.
- Buried at Westminster Abbey.
- Pictured on a 22¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued 26 September 1986 (98th anniversary of his birth).
- Became a British subject in 1927.
- Appointed a Member of the Order of Merit in 1948.
- Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
- One of the most famous and celebrated poets of the 20th century.
- Most famous as the author of two rather difficult poems which have become literary classics, "The Waste Land" (1922) and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917).
- His first wife, a Cambridge governess, was named Vivienne, but she preferred to spell her name Vivien. They separated in 1933. In 1938 she was committed to a mental hospital, where she lived until her death in 1947. Eliot never visited her there.
- His second wife was 38 years younger than he. She was his personal secretary for seven years before they married.
- Virginia Woolfe reacted badly to his religious conversion.
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