British writer whose novels, all in the 19th-century realist tradition, include Adam Bede (1859), Silas Marner (1861), and her masterpiece, Middlemarch (1871-1872). English missionary in America who converted many Native Americans to Christianity and contributed to The Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first book printed in New England. American-born British critic and writer whose poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915) and The Waste Land (1922) established him as a major literary figure. He also wrote dramas, such as Murder in the Cathedral (1935), and works of criticism. He won the 1948 Nobel Prize for literature. Eliot Charles William Eliot George Eliot John Eliot Thomas Stearns Fry Roger Eliot Morison Samuel Eliot Ness Eliot
{i} male first name; family name; George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), British writer, author of "Middlemarch"; T.S. Eliot (1888-1965, Thomas Stearns Eliot), U.S. born British writer and critic, author of "The Waste Land
British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880) British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)