Given the question: Facts:   - region: western philosophy      - era: 20th-century philosophy   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of allan bloom .
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allan david bloom -lrb- september 14 , 1930 -- october 7 , 1992 -rrb- 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 .