Title: The handsome sailor
First published: 1998
Description: A portrait of the 19th century writer, Herman Melville, after he wrote his famous Moby Dick. He burns his manuscripts, has an extra-marital affair and goes to work as a customs inspector in New York. Not until 30 years later does he resume writing to produce Billy Bud just before his death.
Subjects: Fiction, Novelists, Large type books, American Novelists, Fiction, historical, general, Melville, herman, 1819-1891, fiction
People: Herman Melville (1819-1891)