Milton Stern

Milton R. Stern was an American professor of English and American literature, who specialized in studies of the works of Herman Melville and F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for his "landmark books" on Melville, Fitzgerald, and Hawthorne, particularly The Fine Hammered Steel of Herman Melville, and also for editing the "pioneering" four-volume American Literature Survey for the Viking Portable Library.

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