Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". Wikipedia
Born: July 11, 1930, East Bronx, New York, NY
Died: October 14, 2019 (age 89 years), New Haven, CT
Influenced by: William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Sigmund Freud, and more
Spouse: Jeanne Gould (m. 1958)
Parents: Paula Bloom and William Bloom