Valerie Eliot, the widow and literary executor of poet TS Eliot, has died at home in London after a short illness, aged 86. Valerie Eliot was born in Leeds, England, Newsday reports. She was a young secretary when she met T.S. Eliot but felt she knew him already as a long-time fan of his work. The poet was born an American but moved to England and later became a British citizen. “I felt I knew him as a person,” she told the Independent newspaper in a rare 1994 interview. “And evidently I did
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Valerie Eliot dies at 86
