Herman Melville facts for kids
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Herman Melville
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Photograph of Herman Melville
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| Born | August 1, 1819 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | September 28, 1891 (aged 72) New York City, New York |
| 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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Richard Tobias Greene, who jumped ship with Melville in the Marquesas Islands and is Toby in Typee, pictured in 1846
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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Shaw Melville in 1885
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Herman Melville's home Arrowhead, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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Herman Melville, c. 1846–47. Oil painting by Asa Weston Twitchell
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View of Mount Greylock from Melville's writing desk
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New York Times obituary notice, September 29, 1891, which misspelled Melville's then-unpopular masterpiece as Mobie Dick
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The last known image of Melville, 1885. Cabinet card by Rockwood
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The gravestones of Herman Melville and his wife in Woodlawn Cemetery
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Herman Melville, 1860
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Plaque outside 104 East 26th street, New York
