Harold Bloom Born: 11-Jul-1930 Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male Religion: Other Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Critic, Scholar Nationality: United States Executive summary: Literary critic, Yale professor Professor at Yale University, and perhaps America's most well-known critic. Considers himself a gnostic. Father: William Bloom Mother: Paula Lev Wife: Jeanne Gould (m. 8-May-1958, two sons) Son: Daniel Jacob Son: David Moses
University: BA, Cornell University University: PhD, Yale University (1955) Professor: Yale University (1965-)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Philosophical Society Fulbright 1955 Guggenheim Fellowship 1962 MacArthur Fellowship 1985
Author of books:
The Visionary Company (1961, criticism) The Ringers in the Tower (1971, criticism) The Anxiety of Influence (1973, criticism) A Map of Misreading (1975, criticism) Figures of Capable Imagination (1976, criticism) The Book of J (1990, nonfiction) The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation (1992, nonfiction) The Western Canon (1994, nonfiction) Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996, nonfiction) Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998, nonfiction) How to Read and Why (2000, nonfiction) W. E. B. Du Bois (2001, nonfiction) Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2003, nonfiction) José Saramago (2004, nonfiction)
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