Eliot

El·i·ot  (l-t), Charles William 1834-1926.

American educator and editor who was president of Harvard University (1869-1909) and edited the Harvard Classics (1909-1910), a 50-volume selection of world literature.

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Eliot, George Pen name of Mary Ann Evans. 1819-1880.

British writer whose novels, all in the 19th-century realist tradition, include Adam Bede (1859), Silas Marner (1861), and her masterpiece, Middlemarch (1871-1872).

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Eliot, John 1604-1690.

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.

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Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) 1888-1965.

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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Eliot - 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) T. S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot
	2.	Eliot - British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880) George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans