• Mr. Bradbury adapted his stories for TV, co-wrote the script for the 1956 film "Moby Dick" and produced children's books, poetry and text for coffee-table books.

    WSJ: Ray Bradbury, author of Classic 'Fahrenheit 451,' Dies at 91

  • He wrote the screenplay for John Huston's film Moby Dick and scripts for many TV series, including Suspense, The Alfred Hitchcock Show and The Twilight Zone.

    BBC: Author Ray Bradbury dies, aged 91

  • And we also report the astonishing finding that Herman Melville's great novel Moby Dick predicted the war on terrorism as well as having something to say about Tony Blair.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | More Or Less | The politics of numbers

  • In 1841, Herman Melville set out to sea from the city on the whaling ship Acushnet, returning after an 18-month voyage to eventually write Moby Dick, the tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the great white whale.

    BBC: The haunted land of New England

  • Commenting on Mr. Alan Greenspan's crafting of U.S. monetary policy, a recent magazine article warned against the obsessive drive to achieve some arbitrary consumer price index rate, and compared it to Captain Ahab's fatal pursuit of Moby Dick.

    CNN: QUIPPED ONE ANONYMOUS

  • Dr. Church said he first considered encoding the novel "Moby Dick, " but then chose to use his own manuscript because its combination of words, pictures and JavaScript code would better showcase DNA's capacity to handle different kinds of information.

    WSJ: Harvard Researchers Turn Book Into DNA Code

  • So for every Picasso, there's a Cezanne, who if you go to Le Musee d'Orsay and you look at all of his greatest works, they're all painted in his 50s and 60s, or for every Melville who writes Moby Dick at 28 or 29, there is a Mark Twain who writes 'Huckleberry Finn' in his late 40s or early 50s.

    CNN: The man who can explain everything

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