FTP, name this American author who also wrote about such characters as Pierre Glendenning, Israel Potter, Billy Budd, and Captain Ahab.
He is the title character of Frederick Busch's novel The Night Inspector, in which a deformed ex-sharpshooter sells him the gun his son uses to commit suicide. The definitive biography of this man is a two-volume work by Hershel Parker, who helped edit the Northwestern-Newberry edition of his writings, while this man's "world and work" were the subject of a recent book by Andrew Delbanco. This man is said to have seen the "dice of drowned men's bones bequeath an embassy" in a poem written at his "tomb" by Hart Crane, while this man's own poems include "The Berg," "The Maldive Shark," and the epic Clarel. FTP, name this American author who also wrote about such characters as Pierre Glendenning, Israel Potter, Billy Budd, and Captain Ahab.
He is the title character of Frederick Busch's novel The Night Inspector, in which a deformed ex-sharpshooter sells him the gun his son uses to commit suicide.
Herman {Melville}