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Herman Melville (born Melvill; [a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
Herman Melville, c. 1860. Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. His maternal grandparents lived in Albany, New York, where his parents took their family in 1830 after a series of financial setbacks. His uncle Thomas Melvill [4] owned property in Pittsfield that the family had visited a few times when Melville was younger.
The Melville Monument is a large column in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh constructed between 1821 and 1827 as a memorial to Scottish statesman Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. Dundas, the most prominent politician from Scotland of his period, was a dominant figure in British politics during much of the late 18th century.
Four accomplished sculptors have been selected as finalists to create New Bedford’s Herman Melville statue, chosen from over 40 artists.
Herman Melville House: Herman Melville House: August 21, 1992 : 2 114th St. Troy: 73 ... has been Monument Square landmark since its construction. [24] 78: Neemes Foundry
Mount Greylock is the dedicatee of Herman Melville's 1852 novel Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, written at his home in Pittsfield, MA. Mount Greylock is mentioned in Bill Bryson's 1998 book A Walk in the Woods. Mount Greylock is the location of Ilvermorny, the North American school of witchcraft and wizardry in the fictional universe of Harry Potter.
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850) is an essay and critical review by Herman Melville of the short story collection Mosses from an Old Manse written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1846. Published pseudonymously by "a Virginian spending July in Vermont", it appeared in The Literary World magazine in two issues: August 17 and August 24, 1850.
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891.. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickly took its place as a classic second only to Moby-Dick among Melville's