How a Chicago editor set T.S. Eliot on the path to a Nobel Prize

Eliot then had myriad undergraduate disciples, as Cynthia Ozick recalled in a 1989 New Yorker essay: When T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature, “he seemed pure zenith, a colossus, nothing less than a permanent luminary, fixed in the firmament like the sun and the moon,” wrote Ozick, a novelist and critic.