Herman Melville

✶August 1, 1819

†September 28, 1891

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Herman Melville was an American writer 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. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.

American writer (1819–1891)

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Biography from the article Herman Melville on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.