Hershel Parker
Hershel Parker , H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware, is the associate general editor of the Northwestern-Newberry The Writings of Herman Melville . His publications include Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons , Reading "Billy Budd" , and the 1995 edition of Melville's Pierre , or, The Ambiguities , illustrated by Maurice Sendak. He is also the author of the two-volume Herman Melville: A Biography, 1819-1851 (1996) and Herman Melville: A Biography, 1851-1891 (2002),...See more
Hershel Parker , H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware, is the associate general editor of the Northwestern-Newberry The Writings of Herman Melville . His publications include Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons , Reading "Billy Budd" , and the 1995 edition of Melville's Pierre , or, The Ambiguities , illustrated by Maurice Sendak. He is also the author of the two-volume Herman Melville: A Biography, 1819-1851 (1996) and Herman Melville: A Biography, 1851-1891 (2002), the first a Pulitzer finalist and each the winner of the highest award from the Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division. See less
