[1819] - Melville born, New York

Useful Links and Further Reading

• www.melville.org, ‘The Life and Works of Herman Melville’,
  http://www.melville.org/
• Project Gutenberg, ‘Online Works by Herman Melville’,
  http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/m#a9
• Andreas Teuber, Brandeis University, ‘Herman Melville’,
  http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/melvillebio.html
• Donna Campbell, Washington State University, ‘Herman Melville (1819–1891)’,
  http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/melville.htm
• University of Virginia, ‘Herman Melville Biography’,
  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/bb/hm_bio.html
• The John Murray Archive, ‘Herman Melville: South Sea Adventurer’,
  http://digital.nls.uk/jma/who/melville/
• Electronic Text Centre, University of Virginia Library, ‘Herman Melville, Moby Dick’,
  http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Mel2Mob.html
• Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography. Volume 1: 1819–1851 (Baltimore, MD, 1996)
• Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography. Volume 2: 1851–1891 (Baltimore, MD, 2005)
• Peter Szendy, Prophecies of Leviathan: Reading Past Melville (New York, NY, 2009)
• Brian Yothers, Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author (New York, NY, 2011)