New Bedford is one step closer to paying homage to literary legend Herman Melville. The larger-than-life sculpture of the ...

Herman Melville is today widely recognized as both a monumental novelist and poet, perhaps the most American of great American writers. But he was, during his lifetime, a literary failure.

Although author Herman Melville never called New Bedford home, he wrote glowingly of the port city in his most famous work “Moby-Dick,” describing it as “perhaps the dearest place to live ...

Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne (WikiMedia Commons, AP) Then there’s the study, just across the hall, where Melville wrestled down his white whale with ink and paper.

Knopf. 415 pp. $30 The life and afterlife of Herman Melville (1819-1891) present the greatest illustration in American literature, perhaps in world literature, of the Psalm "The same stone which ...

All I could think was, “I’m in Herman Melville’s house, and I’m drunk!” I felt his hand on top of my head, pressing me into the floorboards. I couldn’t speak; I could hardly breathe.

"Herman Melville" by Elizabeth Hardwick A great critic takes on a great novelist, finding agony, homoeroticism and, ultimately, mystery. By Maria Russo. Published July 26, 2000 8:05AM (EDT) -- ...

When he was only 32, Herman Melville put a bullet in his career, writing a novel so outrageous (incest was one theme) that reviewers thought he had gone insane.

As Melville turns 200, I think about “Moby-Dick” and its relevancy today, says scholar and filmmaker David Shaerf. In 2019, the book reads almost like a prophecy against the kind of folly and ...

P oor Herman Melville. If only he would have known the fame and critical acclaim that awaited him after his death—if only he would have been able to enjoy some of the fruits of the astounding ...