Harold Bloom

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1. Harold Bloom

   Author of Genius : a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds, Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien's the Lord of the rings

2. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, The Truth in Painting

3. William Shakespeare

   Author of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure

4. Elaine Pagels

   Author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent

5. Northrop Frye

   Author of Anatomy of Criticism, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, Fables Of Identity: Studies In Poetic Mythology

6. Nicholas A. Basbanes

   Author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, Patience & Fortitude, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

7. Roland Barthes

   Author of The Pleasure of the Text, Image-Music-Text, Writing Degree Zero

8. Stephen Greenblatt

   Author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, Hamlet in Purgatory

9. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Discoverers, The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination, The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

10. Wallace Stevens

    Author of Collected poems, Wallace Stevens : Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America), The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

11. Paul Johnson

    Author of Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830, Churchill

12. Frank Kermode

    Author of Shakespeare's language, The Age of Shakespeare, The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

13. Michel Foucault

    Author of The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

14. Alberto Manguel

    Author of A History of Reading, The Library at Night, Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)

15. Peter Ackroyd

    Author of Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, Blake, Dickens

16. Jacques Barzun

    Author of From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works, Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage

17. M. H. Abrams

    Author of The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature, English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism

18. John Dominic Crossan

    Author of Jesus, A Revolutionary Biography, The Historical Jesus, Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated

19. Marjorie Garber

    Author of Shakespeare After All, The Use and Abuse of Literature

20. Karen Armstrong

    Author of The Battle for God, A Short History of Myth, In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis