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Harold Bloom (1930-2019)
literary historian, professor, literary critic, journalist, literary theorist
![How to read and why [lg. print]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6806551-M.jpg)
![Sophocles Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone [Study Guide]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/2633176-M.jpg)
![Charles Dicken[s]'s Great expectations](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/1489952-M.jpg)
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
Arthur Asa Berger (born 1933)
literary scholar, linguist, journalist
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, music critic, journalist, critic, literary scholar
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
Thomas Steinaecker (born 1977)
journalist, literary critic, director, film director, literary scholar
Antal Szerb (1901-1945)
translator, poet, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar
Stephen Greenblatt (born 1943)
literary historian, literary critic, journalist, Shakespearean scholar, literary theorist
Maryse CondƩ (1934-2024)
playwright, literary scholar
