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Harold Bloom is an American writer, literary critic, and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Some of his books are The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, How to Read and Why, The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life, The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost, Novelists and Novels: A Collection of Critical Essays (Bloom\'s Literary Criticism 20th Anniversary Collection), Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, The American Religion: The Emergence of The Post-Christian Nation, Omens of the Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection, The Book of J, A Map of Misreading: With a New Preface, Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?, The Fourth Dimension of a Poem: and Other Essays, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, The Art of Reading Poetry, Kabbalah and Criticism (Continuum Impacts), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present, Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode, Poets and Poems, Essayists and Prophets, Dramatists and Dramas: A Collection of Critical Essays, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, The American Religion, Fallen Angels, Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism, and The Epic.

Harold Bloom was born in New York City and was raised at the South Bronx. He attended Cornell University, Cambridge University, and Yale University.