The novel 'Moby-Dick', which details Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for the white whale, was written by:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Herman Melville
- Edgar Allan Poe
- James Fenimore Cooper
Answer: Herman Melville
Herman Melville published 'Moby-Dick' in 1851. Although initially a commercial failure, it is now recognized as a Great American Novel.