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Herman Melville Moby-Dick Herman Melville Born: 1 August 1819 Birthplace: New York, New York Died: 28 September 1891 (heart failure) Best Known As: The author of Moby-Dick Herman Melville Born to a wealthy New York family that suffered great financial losses, Melville had little formal schooling and began a period of wanderings at sea in 1839. In 1841 he sailed on a whaler bound for the South Seas; the next year he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Herman Melville His adventures in Polynesia were the basis of his successful first novels, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). After his al