T.S. Eliot was an American-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic. He is widely regarded as one of the 20th century's major poets and is considered a key figure in modernist literature. His most famous works include The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. 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 most famous works include Middlemarch, Silas Marner, and Adam Bede.