Synopses & Reviews
A richly illustrated book that re-creates the making of one of Broadways biggest hits, based on Eliots Old Possums Book of Practical Cats. Color photographs and drawings by John Napier.
About the Author
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927. The acclaimed poet of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.