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Photograph of Herman Melville
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| Born | (1819-08-01)August 1, 1819 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | September 28, 1891(1891-09-28) (aged 72) New York City, New York |
| Occupation | novelist, short story writer, teacher, sailor, lecturer, poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Genres | 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.
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.
Herman Melville, c. 1846–47. Oil painting by Asa Twitchell
Richard Tobias Greene, who jumped ship with Melville in the Marquesas Islands and is Toby in Typee, pictured in 1846
Herman Melville's home, Arrowhead, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
The last known image of Melville, 1885. Cabinet card by Rockwood
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Shaw Melville in 1885
The gravestones of Herman Melville and his wife in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City
New York Times obituary notice, 29 September 1891, which misspelled Melville's then-unpopular masterpiece as Mobie Dick
Herman Melville, 1860
Herman Melville in 1868
Plaque outside 104 East 26th street, New York
