TY - BOOK AU - Arvin,Newton TI - Herman Melville T2 - Compass books AV - PS2386 .A7 1963 PY - 1963/// CY - New York PB - Viking Press KW - Melville, Herman, KW - Novelists, American KW - 19th century KW - Biography KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - BIBINDX; Loomings -- Enviable isles -- Author of Typee, Omoo, &c. -- New York and Pittsfield -- Whale -- Lee shore -- Perilous outpost of the sane -- Trophies of peace N2 - The biographer, gay, was later the center of a pornography witchhunt, chronicled in the book The Scarlet Professor (2001) ER -