For 10 points, name this American author of a novel about Captain Ahab's hunt for a white whale, Moby-Dick.
This author coined the phrase "the shock of recognition" in his essay "Hawthorne and His Mosses." The protagonist of one of this author's novels pledges to worship a malign god through defiance in a chapter titled "The Candles." This author portrayed Amasa Delano's discovery of a slave rebellion led by Babu aboard the San Dominick in Benito Cereno, and wrote a novel about a monomaniacal Quaker who employs Starbuck, Queequeg, and Ishmael. For 10 points, name this American author of a novel about Captain Ahab's hunt for a white whale, Moby-Dick.
This author coined the phrase "the shock of recognition" in his essay "Hawthorne and His Mosses.
Herman {Melville}