T. S. Eliot working on foreign accounts. On a trip to Paris in August 1920 with the artist Wyndham Lewis, he met the writer James Joyce. Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant—Joyce doubted Eliot's ability as a poet at the time—but the two soon became friends, with Eliot visiting Joyce whenever he was in Paris. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis also maintained a close friendship, leading to Lewis's later making his well-known portrait painting of Eliot in 1938. Charles Whibley recommended T.S. Eliot to Geoffrey Faber. In 1925 Eliot left Lloyds to become a director in the publishing firm Faber and Gwyer, later Faber
Peter Craven (literary critic) Heyward with whom he founded "Scripsi", a literary magazine which ran from 1981 to 1994. Peter Craven (literary critic) Peter Craven is an Australian literary critic and cultural studies writer. Craven has written for "The Age", "The Australian" and the "Australian Literary Review". His work has also appeared in "Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing", the "Times Literary Supplement" and "London Review of Books". Craven has been described as both a "literary hack" and "one of the most prolific, erudite and opinionated voices in Australian literary circles". In 2004 he was awarded the Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year.