Herman Melville

Born August 1, 1819· New York City, New York, USA

† Died September 28, 1891

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Emerging from a prosperous New York merchant family, Melville entered the maritime world as a common sailor in 1839, an experience that supplied material for his early novels. After a daring desertion in the Marquesas, he transformed his voyages into the travel adventures Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), securing enough income to marry Elizabeth Shaw. Though subsequent novels such as Mardi and Redbur… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources