Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Steven Moore is a literary critic. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1988. While Moore has been a teacher, bookstore owner, book reviewer, and columnist, he is most well known for his work as an editor and author of literary criticism. Moore is the foremost authority on William Gaddis, having written a book on this author, supervised the collection of several critical essays, and assisted in the translation of Gaddis' work into Chinese. The wikipedia entry.