Herman Melville
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.[1]
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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 |
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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 Melville's novel Pierre (1852), he fictionalized this portrait as the portrait of Pierre's father.
Maria Gansevoort Melvill (mother of Herman Melville), c. 1815, portrait by Ezra Ames, National Gallery of Art
Richard Tobias Greene, who jumped ship with Melville in the Marquesas Islands and is Toby in Typee, pictured in 1846
Melville's desertion from the Acushnet in 1842
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Shaw Melville, Melville's wife, in 1885
Melville's home Arrowhead in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Herman Melville, c. 1846–47. Oil painting by Asa Weston Twitchell
View of Mount Greylock from Melville's writing desk
The last known image of Melville in 1885, a cabinet card by Rockwood
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References
- ↑ (in en) Herman Melville | Books, Facts, & Biography. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herman-Melville. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
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