About the Author

Harold Bloom is the author of twenty-seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; The Western Canon; and, most recently, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, and has been the recipient of numerous honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Yale University.