Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
* He was born in New York City in 1930 and died in New Haven, Connecticut in 2019.
* Bloom wrote over 50 books, including **The Anxiety of Influence**, **The Western Canon**, and **Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human**.
* He was a MacArthur Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
* Bloom was known for his controversial and provocative views on literature and culture.
* He was a passionate advocate for the study of literature and a tireless defender of the Western canon.
* Bloom's work has had a profound impact on the study of literature and culture.
* He is considered one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century.