About Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale. In 2017 he was called probably the most famous literary critic. He wrote over 50 books, many on literary criticism, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995. Bloom’s first book appeared in 1959, and over his career he authored more than 50 titles, including over 40 works of literary criticism, several books on religion and a novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies for Chelsea House and his writings have been translated into more than 40 languages.
![“I cannot locate any aestetic dignity in [Stephen] King's writing: his public could not sustain it, nor could he...Art unfortunately is rarely the fruit of earnestness, and King will be remembered as a sociological phenomenon, an image of the death of the Literate Reader.” quote by Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b5/harold-bloom-3350_art_i-cannot-locate-any-aestetic-dignity-in_2239782.jpg)
