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Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2

Hershel Parker

Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. Illustrations.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographyFamily BiographyFamily, Childhood & AdoptionBiography & Public Lives

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Biography and Autobiography2002WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Herman Melville92%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    72 / 100 academic

    Academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.