Melville in Love

A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick , written by a Pulitzer  Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville’s canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman. Herman Melville’s epic novel, Moby-Dick , was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author’s rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by