Valerie Eliot

Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (died 2012)

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Born: August 17, 1926
Died: November 9, 2012
Zodiac sign: Leo
Birth year: 1926

About Valerie Eliot

Esmé Valerie Eliot was the second wife and later widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot. She was a major shareholder in the publishing firm of Faber and Faber Limited and the editor and annotator of a number of books dealing with her late husband's writings. In 1972 she won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for The Waste Land: Facsimile and Manuscripts of the Original Drafts. At the 1983 Tony Awards, Valerie Eliot accepted her husband's posthumous Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Cats.

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Valerie Eliot timeline

1972In 1972 she won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for The Waste Land: Facsimile and Manuscripts of the Original Drafts.
1983At the 1983 Tony Awards, Valerie Eliot accepted her husband's posthumous Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Cats.

The world when Valerie Eliot was born

Valerie Eliot was born in 1926. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1926

#1 song"Bye Bye Blackbird"
Top movieThe General (Buster Keaton)
Best-selling bookThe Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentGertrude Ederle swims the English Channel
Top headlineA.A. Milne publishes Winnie-the-Pooh
Technology milestoneFirst demonstration of television
Defining fadFlagpole sitting
Notable inventionPop-up toaster
World population2.01 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderCalvin Coolidge
Sports championSt. Louis Cardinals (World Series)
U.S. population117.4M

1926 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Valerie Eliot's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1926	2026
Gas	$0.23	$3.45/gal
Average home	$6,000	$435,000
Average income	$3,620	$67,500
Movie ticket	$0.25	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.02	$0.73
Population	117.4M	341 million

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