T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), usually known as T. S. Eliot, was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25), settling, working and marrying there. He was eventually naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39, renouncing his American citizenship.

Among his most famous works are "The Hollow Men" (1925) and "The Waste Land" (1922). His cat poems served as the basis for the long running musical Cats.

T.S. Eliot in The Hot War
T.S. Eliot was alive and living in London on the eve of the outbreak of World War III in January, 1951. USAF co-pilot, just minutes away from receiving orders to deploy an atom bomb against Harbin, Manchuria, remembered an oft-quoted line from Eliot's "The Hollow Men": This the the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.