About the author: source Wikipedia. "Harold Bloom is a literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since. . .his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion and a novel. . .Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages." About the book: quoting from the book's back cover, Bentley Layton, Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University and author of "The Gnostic Scriptures," wrote about this work, "A dazzling account of the Gnostic, Jewish, and Islamic roots of American spirituality, by our most prominent literary and religious critic. "Omens of Millennium" is one of those magnificent works of religious interpretation and synthesis that appear only once in a generation."