Arvin, Newton,  1900-1963 <br/><br/>
Herman Melville / 
 Herman Melville :  a critical biography 
Newton Arvin. 
 - viii, 312 pages :  portraits ;  20 cm 
 - Compass books ;  C20 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Loomings -- Enviable isles -- Author of Typee, Omoo, &c. -- New York and Pittsfield -- Whale -- Lee shore -- Perilous outpost of the sane -- Trophies of peace. 
<br/><br/> The biographer, gay, was later the center of a pornography witchhunt, chronicled in the book The Scarlet Professor (2001). 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Novelists, American--19th century--Biography
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographies
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS2386  / .A7 1963