George Eliot and T.S. Eliot are two of the most influential writers of the 20th century. George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her works include Middlemarch, Silas Marner, and The Mill on the Floss. T.S. Eliot was an American-born British poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is best known for his poem The Waste Land, which is considered to be one of the most important poems of the 20th century. His other works include The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Four Quartets, and Murder in the Cathedral.