Question: Who is an American novelist, poet and critic, the author of sixteen books: six novels, eight volumes of poetry, a critical study of film noir, and a novel for children, Allan Bloom or  Nicholas Christopher ? 

Context articles: Robert J. Serling
Allan Bloom
Deborah Paredez
Lawrence Thornton
Kusumagraj
Ben Howard (poet)
D. Harlan Wilson
The Closing of the American Mind
Nicholas Christopher
Dick Davis (translator)

Robert Jerome Serling (March 28, 1918 – May 6, 2010) was an American novelist and aviation writer.
 Born in Cortland, New York, Serling graduated from Antioch College.
 He became full-time aviation editor for United Press International in 1960.
 He wrote at least eight novels and sixteen books of nonfiction.
 His novel "The President's Plane Is Missing" was made into a 1973 made-for-TV film starring Buddy Ebsen.
 He was the older brother of screenwriter and "The Twilight Zone" creator Rod Serling.
 He received the 1988 Lauren D. Lyman Award "for distinguished achievement in the field of aviation and aerospace journalism."
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.
Deborah Paredez (born December 19, 1970) is an American poet, scholar, and cultural critic.
 She is the author of the poetry collection, "This Side of Skin," and the critical study, "Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory."
 She is Co-Founder and Co-Director of CantoMundo, a national organization that supports Latino poets and poetry.
 She lives in New York City where she is a professor of creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University.
Lawrence Thornton (born 1937) is an American novelist and critic living in Claremont, California.
 His most well known novel, "Imagining Argentina", employs the methods of magic realism to tell a story of the Dirty War (1976-1983).
 This novel, along with "Naming the Spirits" and "Tales from the Blue Archives", makes up the Argentina Trilogy.
 His work, published in eighteen languages, is frequently taught in schools and universities.
 In 1994 a film was made of "Imagining Argentina" by Christopher Hampton starring Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson and Claire Bloom .
 In 1996, Zorongo Flamenco, a Minneapolis-based flamenco troupe, staged a flamenco version of the novel that featured an international cast of dancers and singers.
 In addition to writing six novels, he is the author of a non-fiction study of modern fiction, "Unbodied Hope", as well as scholarly articles in PMLA, Comparative Literature, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies and other learned journals.
 During the 1990s he was a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review.
Vishnu Vāman Shirwādkar (27 February 1912 – 10 March 1999), popularly known by his pen name, Kusumāgraj, was an eminent Marathi poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, apart from being a humanist, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived, In a career spanning five decades starting in pre-independence era, he wrote 16 volumes of poems, three novels, eight volumes of short stories, seven volumes of essays, 18 plays and six one-act plays.
 His works like the "Vishakha" (1942), a collection of lyrics, inspired a generation into the Indian freedom movement, and is today considered one of the masterpieces of Indian literature, apart from his play, "Natsamrat", which has an important place in Marathi literature.
 He was the recipient of several State awards, and National awards including the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi for "Natsamrat", Padma Bhushan (1991) and the Jnanapith Award in 1987; he also remained chairperson of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in 1989.
Ben W. Howard (born 1944 in Iowa), Emeritus Professor of English at Alfred University, is an American poet, essayist, and critic.
 He is the author of ten books, including two collections of essays on Zen practice, six collections of poems, a verse novella, and a critical study of modern Irish writing.
 For the past four decades he has contributed poems, essays, and reviews to leading journals in North America and abroad, including "Poetry", "Shenandoah", "Poetry Ireland Review", "Agenda", and the "Sewanee Review".
 Until his retirement in 2006, he taught courses in literature and writing and an Honors course in Buddhist meditation at Alfred University.
 He also taught classical guitar and performed in faculty recitals.
 Since 1998 he has led the Falling Leaf Sangha, a Zen practice group in Alfred, New York.
 "One Time, One Meeting," his monthly column, explores aspects of Zen practice.
D. Harlan Wilson (born September 3, 1971) is an American novelist, short-story writer, critic, playwright and English professor.
 His body of work bridges the aesthetics of literary theory with various genres of speculative fiction, with Wilson also being recognized as one of the co-founders of bizarro fiction."
 Among his books is the award-winning novel "Dr. Identity", the two-volume short story collection "Battle without Honor or Humanity," a monograph on John Carpenter’s "They Live" and a critical study of the life and work of J. G. Ballard.
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.
Nicholas Christopher (born 1951) is an American novelist, poet and critic, the author of sixteen books: six novels, eight volumes of poetry, a critical study of film noir, and a novel for children.
Dick Davis FRSL (Portsmouth, 1945) is a British poet and translator.
 He is professor emeritus of Persian at Ohio State University.
 He has written scholarly works on both English and Persian literature, as well as eight volumes of his own poetry, and been the recipient of numerous academic and literary awards, including both the Ingram Merrill and Heinemann awards for poetry.
 His publications include volumes of poetry and verse translation chosen as books of the year by "The Sunday Times" (UK) in 1989; "The Daily Telegraph" (UK) in 1989; "The Economist" (UK) in 2002; "The Washington Post" in 2010, and "The Times Literary Supplement" (UK) in 2013.
 He has published numerous book-length verse translations from medieval Persian, most recently, "Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz" (2012).
 He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been called, by "The Times Literary Supplement", “our finest translator from Persian”.