Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, is the author of twenty-eight books. His best-known publications include hisNew York Timesbest-sellersThe Western Canon,Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, andThe Book of J, as well as his pioneering studiesA Visionary CompanyandThe Anxiety of Influence. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees. Mark Podwal is the author of ten books and has illustrated more than eighteen others, including five by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. His works are represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Victoria and Albert… Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, and many others.