Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American professor and literary critic.

Awards

• Fullbright fellowship, 1955
• John Addison Porter Prize, Yale University, 1956, for Shelley's Mythmaking
• Guggenheim fellowship, 1962-63
• Newton Arvin Award, 1967
• Melville Cane Award, Poetry Society of America, 1971, for Yeats
• National Book Awards juror, 1973
• D.H.L., Boston College, 1973
• D.H.L., Yeshiva University, 1975
• Zabel Prize, American Institute of Arts and Letters, 1982
• Sterling Professorship, Yale University, 1983
• MacArthur Prize fellowship, 1985
• Christian Guass Award, 1988, for Ruin the Sacred Truths
• Boston Book Review Rea Nonfiction Prize, 1995, for The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
• D.H.L., University of Bologna, 1997
• D.H.L., St. Michael's College, 1998
• National Book Award finalist, nonfiction, for Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, 1998
• National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, criticism, for Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, 1998
• New York Times Notable Book of the Year, for Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, 1998
• One of Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, for Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, 1998
• ALA/Booklist Editor's Choice, for Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, 1998
• D.H.L., University of Rome, 1999
• 14th Catalonia International Prize, 2002
• Hans Christian Andersen Award, Odense 2005, for his work in promoting wider awareness of HCA as one of the greatest names of 19th century literature.