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This is from Airmail.news, a 2 November 2019 article called 'WHEN HAWTHORNE MET MELVILLE by Marcia DeSanctis.
FORTHCOMING MULTI-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY: HERMAN MELVILLE: A HALF-KNOWN LIFE.

Hawthorne criticized religion and challenged the evangelical clichés of the time, and was not afraid to do so. This emboldened Melville to be free to say what he needed to say. “His example gave Melville courage and permission to go as dark—as Shakespearean dark—as he needed to go,” said John Bryant, author of the forthcoming multi-volume biography Herman Melville: A Half-Known Life. He may even have created Ahab with pointers from his own review of Hawthorne’s work. If he can do it, I can do it, and do it better, he may have thought. The result: a mentally tortured monomaniacal soliloquist, a Lear and Macbeth rolled into one, in American idiom.

But what about the romance? On this mountain, it was beside the point. What we do know is that Melville created Ahab, this premonitory character and template for all demons and demagogues, past and present, with irrational obsessions that lead to the indiscriminate destruction of all. He wrote an allegory that was also a great whaling story, and he wrote it for many more months after that fateful August morning. One day—but not until well after his death—Moby Dick would become the cornerstone of American literature.