books.google.com - The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville—a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize—closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an inscribed copy of his new novel, Moby-Dick, to...http://books.google.com/books/about/Herman_Melville.html?id=5bI50n5WImkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHerman Melville
