Question: Between Allan Bloom and Philip Pullman, who was born earlier?
Context: Once Upon a Time in the North, a fantasy novella by Philip Pullman (first published on 3 April 2008 in the United Kingdom) functions as a prequel to Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.  The premise of the story involves the meeting of Iorek Byrnison and Lee Scoresby: Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician.  He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève.  He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Yale University, École Normale Supérieure of Paris, and the University of Chicago.  Bloom championed the idea of Great Books education and became famous for his criticism of contemporary American higher education, with his views being expressed in his bestselling 1987 book, "The Closing of the American Mind".  Characterized as a conservative in the popular media, Bloom denied that he was a conservative, and asserted that what he sought to defend was the 'theoretical life'.  Saul Bellow wrote "Ravelstein", a roman à clef based on Bloom, his friend and colleague at the University of Chicago. Count Karlstein, or the Ride of the Demon Huntsman is the first children's novel written by British author Philip Pullman.  It was published in 1982.  The story was originally written by Pullman to be performed as a school play at Bishop Kirk Middle School, Oxford, where Pullman was an English teacher. The Latke–Hamantash Debate is a deliberately humorous academic debate about the relative merits and meanings of these two items of Jewish cuisine.  The debate originated at the University of Chicago in 1946 and has since been held annually.  Subsequent debates have taken place at several other universities.  Participants in the debate, held within the format of a symposium, have included past University of Chicago president Hanna Holborn Gray, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee, Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Leon M. Lederman, and essayist Allan Bloom.  A compendium of the debate, which has never been won, was published in 2005. Shakespeare's Politics is a 1964 book co-authored by Allan Bloom and Harry V. Jaffa.  The authors provide an analysis of four Shakespeare plays guided by the premise that political philosophy provides a necessary perspective on the problems of Shakespeare’s heroes.  Its methods and interpretations were significantly influenced by Leo Strauss, who taught Jaffa at the New School for Social Research and Bloom at the University of Chicago, and to whom the book is dedicated. The Closing of the American Mind is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author argued that "higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students."  He focused especially upon the "openness" of relativism as leading paradoxically to the great "closing" referenced in the book's title.  In Bloom's view, "openness" and absolute understanding undermine critical thinking and eliminate the "point of view" that defines cultures.  Bloom's book became an unexpected best seller, eventually selling close to half a million copies in hardback, but drew divided reactions from reviewers. Ernest L. Fortin, A.A. (December 17, 1923 – October 22, 2002) was a professor of theology at Boston College.  While engaged in graduate studies in France, he met Allan Bloom, who introduced him to the work of Leo Strauss.  Father Fortin worked at the intersection of Athens and Jerusalem. Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist.  He is the author of several best-selling books, most notably the fantasy trilogy "His Dark Materials" and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ".  In 2008, "The Times" named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945".  In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. "Miniver Cheevy" is a narrative poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and first published in "The Town down the River" in 1910.  The poem, written in quatrains of iambic tetrameter for three lines, followed by a catalectic line of only three iambs, relates the story of a hopeless romantic who spends his days thinking about what might have been if only he had been born earlier in time. Lyra's Oxford is a short book by Philip Pullman depicting an episode involving the heroine of "His Dark Materials", Pullman's best-selling trilogy.  "Lyra's Oxford" is set when Lyra Belacqua is 15, two years after the end of the trilogy.
Answer: Allan David Bloom