Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex

About the Author

About the Author THOMAS FAREL HEFFERNAN, a Melville enthusiast, discovered Owen Chase by chance on a farm in Aurora, New York, near the family home where Heffernan spent his childhood. His wife, Carol, noticed an old sea chest in a neighbor's kitchen. The sea chest belonged to Owen Chase's brother. ''That was the day the Owen Chase book was born," he says. He has since published several articles on Melville and related subjects. Heffernan, Professor ofEnglish at Adelphi University in Garden City, NewYork, received his B.A. from Fordham University and his Ph.D. from Columbia. He has lived and studied in Quebec, Dublin, Oxford, andvarious places in Italy. ,!7IA8B9-fgceej! ...