This author wrote a novel in which Captain Vere is forced to execute the killer of John Claggart and a short story about (*) "Bartleby the Scrivener.
One of this author's protagonists used to work at a Dead Letter office, but starves to death in prison because he "would prefer not to" eat. This author wrote a novel in which Captain Vere is forced to execute the killer of John Claggart and a short story about (*) "Bartleby the Scrivener." Queequeg is among the crew of the Pequod lost in Captain Ahab's hunt for a white whale in a work by, for 10 points, what author of Billy Budd and Moby Dick?
One of this author's protagonists used to work at a Dead Letter office, but starves to death in prison because he "would prefer not to" eat.
Herman Melville