Who was John Galt?

[jeffrey smith]

This might properly be put in Humor. But I thought it at least mildly interesting to find that John Galt is one of the authors who appeared in Harold Bloom's "Western Canon" (specifically for a novel entitled The Entail).

So who was John Galt?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt_(novelist)

(BTW, if you type in John Galt into Wiki's search function, it takes you directly to the page for the character in Atlas Shrugged, and only then to this John Galt via a disambiguation link.)

Bloom's list can be found starting here

http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/theocraticcanon.html

(Click through for a total of four pages).

And no, Ayn Rand does no appear in the list.