| 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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