Harold E. Pagliaro (June 19, 1925 – February 15, 2020) was an American literary scholar and expert on 18th-century English literature.
He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School as senior class president in Portsmouth, Virginia, where his father relocated to oversee the construction of the Norfolk dry dock for the United States Navy.
[5] Having been trained at Fort Benning, Pagliaro was deployed to France as a replacement soldier in the 121st Cavalry Reconnaissance Unit.
He received a Purple Heart, a Combat Infantryman Badge, and a Bronze Star Medal.
He also authored books on the works of William Blake, Henry Fielding, and George Bernard Shaw.