Philip Young was Evan Pugh Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University and author and editor of many books, most notably Ernest Hemingway (1952) and Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration (Penn State, 1966).

“The Private Melville is a delight to read. Wise, learned, witty, and thoughtful, it moves very smoothly even when it is covering tangled biographical and scholarly ground. In fact, it doesn’t read like a scholarly book at all, even though it is based on an extremely close and detailed and almost loving reading of sources, interpretations, and archival alluvia.”—Giles Gunn, University of California, Santa Barbara

Philip Young was Evan Pugh Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University and author and editor of many books, most notably Ernest Hemingway (1952) and Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration (Penn State, 1966).

“The Private Melville is a delight to read. Wise, learned, witty, and thoughtful, it moves very smoothly even when it is covering tangled biographical and scholarly ground. In fact, it doesn’t read like a scholarly book at all, even though it is based on an extremely close and detailed and almost loving reading of sources, interpretations, and archival alluvia.”—Giles Gunn, University of California, Santa Barbara