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El·i·ot

(ĕlē-ət), 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 (1872).

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.

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T.S. Eliot

El·i·ot

(ĕlē-ət), 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.

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. His translation of the Bible into the Massachusett language (1663) was the first Bible published in the Americas.

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