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Herman Melville
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Photograph of Herman Melville
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| Occupation | novelist, short story writer, teacher, sailor, lecturer, poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | travelogue, Captivity narrative, Sea story, Gothic Romanticism, Allegory, Tall tale |
| Literary movement | Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, and Skepticism; precursor to Modernism, precursor to absurdism and existentialism |
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. He is best known for writing Moby-Dick.
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Melville's father, Allan Melvill (1782–1832), portrait from 1810 by John Rubens Smith, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In his novel Pierre (1852), Melville fictionalized this portrait as the portrait of Pierre's father.
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Herman Melville, c. 1846–47. Oil painting by Asa Twitchell
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Richard Tobias Greene, who jumped ship with Melville in the Marquesas Islands and is Toby in Typee, pictured in 1846
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Herman Melville's home, Arrowhead, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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The last known image of Melville, 1885. Cabinet card by Rockwood
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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Shaw Melville in 1885
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The gravestones of Herman Melville and his wife in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City
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New York Times obituary notice, 29 September 1891, which misspelled Melville's then-unpopular masterpiece as Mobie Dick
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Herman Melville, 1860
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Herman Melville in 1868
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Plaque outside 104 East 26th street, New York