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Herman Melville
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Born | New York City, New York, United States |
August 1, 1819
Died | September 28, 1891 New York City, New York |
(aged 72)
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's home Arrowhead, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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