Harry Bloom

Novelist + Counsel + War Correspondent

Male

Born Jan 1, 1913

Hometown Johannesburg

Died Jul 28, 1981

Nationality South African

Other Names Solomon Harris Bloom

Harry Saul Bloom was a Jewish South African journalist, novelist, and political activist. Born Solomon Harris Bloom, he was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and subsequently became an advocate in Johannesburg. He married Beryl Gordon in… Read More

Family

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Harry Bloom

d.1981

children

Orlando Bloom
Son, Age 36

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Philadelphia's Day School Dilemma Forward
Google News - Aug 19, 2011

The project is a collaboration between the Avi Chai Foundation and Yeshiva University, with Harry Bloom, of YU's Institute for University-School Partnership, doing a financial benchmarking and analysis of schools. “Individual schools can't bring enough
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Fallon At The Double After Traffic Problems Sportinglife.Com
Google News - Aug 06, 2011

Clear Ice (13-2) was successful at the track on Wednesday and followed up under a penalty for Gay Kelleway and Chris Catlin in the Harry Bloom Memorial Handicap. "I'm normally not too keen on running a horse back too quickly but I think with sprinters,
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Rede De Homens E De Livros Odiario.Com
Google News - Jul 05, 2011

Para muitos críticos de Arte, como Harry Bloom, séries como Harry Potter e Crepúsculo são subprodutos - fast food - desprovidos de valor literário. Para outros, caminhos valiosos para a evolução e multiplicação de leituras e leitores
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Orlando Bloom, Juliet Lewis Discuss Sympathy For Delicious Santa Monica Mirror
Google News - May 13, 2011

Probably finding out when I was 13 that my father Harry Bloom, who died when I was four, wasn't really my father. I'm lucky because my real dad, Colin Stone, who helped my mom raise me, is a huge part of my life today. Bloom: Absolutely
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1913 Birth Born on January 1, 1913.

TWENTIES

1940 27 Years Old Born Solomon Harris Bloom, he was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and subsequently became an advocate in Johannesburg. He married Beryl Gordon in 1940 and worked as a war correspondent in England during the Second World War. … Read More

FORTIES

1956 43 Years Old The novel won the British Authors' Club Prize for the best novel of 1956, but Bloom was denied an exit permit to travel to England to receive the prize. … Read More

1960 47 Years Old During the state of emergency that followed the Sharpville massacre in 1960, he was detained for ninety days without charges or trial—first at Roeland Street Prison and later at Worcester Prison near Cape Town. … Read More

FIFTIES

1963 50 Years Old In 1963 Bloom went into exile in England. … Read More

1967 54 Years Old In 1967, he became lecturer in law at the University of Kent and married a second time to Sonia Copeland.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1981 69 Years Old He died of a stroke in 1981 at the age of 68. … Read More

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