About R. Howard Bloch
Born 1943. R. Howard Bloch is an American literary historian, medievalist, romanist and university teacher.
R. Howard Bloch is an American author and literary critic who has been the Sterling Professor of French at Yale University since 2005. Bloch was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010.
On April 29, 2018, Howard Bloch married Ellen Handler Spitz in a private religious ceremony that took place in their home in Hamden, Connecticut, the former dwelling place of American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder, who built the house with the proceeds from his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
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Who is R. Howard Bloch?
American literary critic
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R. Howard Bloch was born on 13 December 1943.
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R. Howard Bloch is a literary historian, medievalist, romanist and university teacher.
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R. Howard Bloch is American.
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