Howard Bloom

Howard Bloom (born June 25, 1943) is an American author. He was a publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx. In 1988 he became disabled with chronic fatigue syndrome. Since then, he has published three books on human evolution and group behavior, The Genius of the Beast, Global Brain, and The Lucifer Principle. 2Early life Bloom was born to a Jewish family in Buffalo, New York. He began his interest in science as early as ten years old, becoming fascinated in cosmology and microbiology. By sixteen, Bloom was working as an assistant researching the immune system at the Roswell Park Memorial Research Cancer Institute. Bloom graduated from New York University and at the age of twenty-five, veered from his scientific studies to work as an editor for a rock magazine. Bloom would go on to found one of the largest public relations firms in the music industry. 2Career 3Public relations In 1974 Bloom was made head of public relations of ABC Record