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Though John Crowley, author of Engine Summer, is perhaps not as well known as the most commercially successful American writers of the past fifty years, his work has had several influential champions, including the poet John Hollander and the literary critic Harold Bloom. According to journalist Graeme Wood, Bloom claimed to have read Crowley's novel Little, Big at least forty-six times, and in his posthumously published afterword to a 2022 edition of the book, Bloom rhetorically asked: "How many living authors of prose romance are universally relevant? Only Crowley."