Which famous book by Herman Melville opens with the line Call Me Ishmael?
Don't Call Me Ishmael Don't Call Me Ishmael Don't Call Me Ishmael is a young adult novel by Australian author Michael Gerard Bauer. It is about Ishmael Leseur, a 14-year-old boy, and his experiences in Year Nine of school. It won the 2008 award for children's literature at Writers' Week, Australia's oldest writers' festival. It was short-listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year award in the older reader category in 2007. In April 2018, Don't Call Me Ishmael: The Musical by Fin Taylor and Christopher Thompson, was premiered in Brisbane. His Year Nine teacher, Miss Tarango, tells the whole
Herman Melville and Newton Arvin's critical biography, "Herman Melville" (1950) won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1951. Hershel Parker published his two volume "Herman Melville: A Biography", in 1996 and 2002, based on extensive original research and his involvement as editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Melville edition. In the 1960s, Northwestern University Press, in alliance with the Newberry Library and the Modern Language Association, organized a project to edit and published reliable critical texts of Melville's complete works, including unpublished poems, journals, and correspondence. The aim of the editors was to present a text "as close as possible to the author's