Happy birthday, Herman Melville! Take our quiz - Los Angeles Times
Advertisement
Books

Happy birthday, Herman Melville! Take our quiz

By Carolyn Kellogg
Share via

For many, “Moby-Dick” is the Great American Novel --- which would make author Herman Melville the Great American Novelist. To celebrate his 194th birthday --- he was born Aug. 1, 1819 --- test your knowledge of the great author who invented the Great White Whale.

ALSO:

Fire department links ’50 Shades’ to handcuff help calls

Advertisement

The case of the bestselling ‘Swedish’ crime novel: Is it fake?

Reza Aslan’s Jesus book a No.1 bestseller, thanks to Fox News

More to Read

Books
Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

More From the Los Angeles Times

Advertisement