| Timeline |
| 1888 |
Born 26 September in Saint Louis, Missouri |
| 1906 |
Begins undergraduate studies at Harvard |
| 1909 |
Begins graduate studies at Harvard |
| 1910 |
Studies in France and Germany |
| 1914 |
Residence at Oxford |
| 1915 |
Marries Vivien Haigh-Wood |
| 1917 |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, poems, published |
| 1920 |
The Sacred Wood , criticism |
| 1922 |
The Waste Land, poems, published |
| 1922 |
Founded, and for seventeen years, edited the literary journal, Criterion |
| 1925 |
Secures permanent employment as director of London publisher, Faber & Faber |
| 1927 |
Baptised and confirmed in the Church of England |
| 1927 |
Becomes a British citizen |
| 1930 |
Ash-Wednesday, poems, published |
| 1931 |
Thoughts After Lambeth published |
| 1933 |
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, criticism |
| 1933 |
Wife's increasing mental illness forces separation |
| 1934 |
After Strange Gods, criticism |
| 1935 |
Murder in the Cathedral, play |
| 1939 |
The Family Reunion, play |
| 1939 |
The Idea of a Christian Society published |
| 1940 |
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, criticism |
| 1943 |
Four Quartets, poems, published |
| 1948 |
The Cocktail Party, play |
| 1948 |
Awarded with the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 1948 |
Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
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| 1950 |
The Cocktail Party, play |
| 1954 |
The Confidential Clerk, play |
| 1956 |
Marries Valerie Fletcher |
| 1958 |
The Elder Statesman, play |
| 1965 |
Dies 4 January |
