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Herman Melvilleis a two-volume biographyof the great nineteenth-century American author by Hershel Parker, an American Melville scholar and the co-editor of Norton’s Critical Edition of Melville’s masterpiece, Moby-Dick.

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Parker’s biography draws on virtually all the surviving documentation relating to Melville’s life, painting a detailed picture not only of the author but of his extended family, whose history and values Hershel sees as deeply influential on Melville’s literary career.

Volume One, published in 1997, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, while Volume Two (2003) won the Association of American Publishers’ Award for Biography.

Parker opens his account of Melville’s life with an anecdote from the author’s childhood.

When Melville was eleven, his father, Allan Melvill (the “e” was a later addition) went bankrupt. The family had to flee their home in lower Manhattan by riverboat to escape creditors.

This incident was a turning point in the family’s h