- Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Even Though the Whole World Is Burning (2014), Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006) and William Shakespeare (2000). He was married to Jeanne Gould. He died on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
- SpouseJeanne Gould(1958 - October 14, 2019) (his death, 2 children)
- American literary scholar, critic and teacher, known for his studies on the 19th century Romantic poets and on William Shakespeare.
- I am Zero Mostel.
- Anti-Semitism is an inescapable interest, though I have never suffered it personally. My four grandparents and many other relatives were murdered in the Shoah.
- [on the writer Jose Saramago in 2008] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world. He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile--he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive.
- Stephen King is Cervantes compared to David Foster Wallace. [Wallace] can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.
- [describing himself] He is philologically trained in the history of the language, and in Greek and Latin, and the other tongues that contribute to the apprehension of American literature, poetry. And in particular, he has an incredible passion, a fierce love for the real splendor of the sublime. I am not Tolstoy. But I have love for books. They have become a part of me.
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