Author's Calendar: Herman Melville: Biographical information and a list of selected works.
Charles Olson's Melville Project: Collection of notes from years of research, accessible as searchable transcripts or as electronic images of the handwritten notecards.
Collecting Herman Melville: An essay detailing the difficulty and allure in collecting works by Melville. Contains biographical information as well as information on his works and their popularity through the last century.
Columbia Encyclopedia: Melville, Herman: Biographical article on the American author. Includes bibliography.
Encyclopædia Britannica: Melville, Herman: Biographical entry on the American author, in the 1911 edition. Some scanner errors.
Herman Melville in Antebellum America: Based on an course offered in the Spring of 1998 at Northwestern Connecticut Community-Technical College. Focuses on the literature of Herman Melville as it relates to the issues of antebellum America.
Melville Room: One of the largest collections of Melville family memorabilia.
Melville, Herman (1819-1891): Lengthy article on the nineteenth-century American novelist.
Melville: Genius Ignored: Biography, focusing on the author's lack of recognition in his lifetime.
The Academy of American Poets: Herman Melville: Short biography.
Wikipedia: Herman Melville: Short encyclopedia-style essay on the author.