Herman Melville

Herman Melville
Herman Melville, by Joseph O. Eaton and an unknown etcher - Library of Congress
Short Name: Herman Melville
Full Name: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Birth Year: 1819
Death Year: 1891

Wikipedia Biography

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a , and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels.

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