Valerie Eliot

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Valerie Eliot née Esmé Valerie Fletcher (b. January 26, 1926) is the surviving widow and second wife of the Nobel prize winning poet Thomas Stearns Eliot. She is his most important editor and literary executor, having brought to press The Waste Land: Facsimile and Manuscripts of the Original Drafts (1971) and The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 1, 1898-1922 (1989). She also assisted Christopher Ricks with his edition of The Inventions of the March Hare (1996), a volume of Eliot's unpublished verse. A second volume of Eliot's letters, edited by Valerie Eliot, is due for publication in 2006.

She donates the £10,000 annual prize money for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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  • Dear Mrs Eliot, an article by Karen Christensen in The Guardian on Valerie Eliot's stewardship and interpretation of TS Eliot's literary legacy.


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