(JiMao June 11), August 1, 1819, the American novelist, essayist and poet Melville was born. Herman Melville was born


"target =" _blank "> Melville (Herman Melville, 1819 August 1, 2011 -1891 years 28 days), the American novelist , essayist and poet. because his family was poor, worked as a farmer, staff, teachers, sailors (history TodayOnHistory.com) Navy job, and later became a novelist, for his sea experience as written in the factual basis for its fable masterpiece "Moby Dick" (1851), the novel is considered one of the greatest novels in the United States, British writer Somerset Maugham in "the world's top ten novelist masterpiece" book "Moby Dick" evaluation far above other American writer Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain. Melville alive obscurity the poor worry down and out to the final, seven years after the publication of "Moby Dick" violence was the name; His works also include short stories, such as "clerk Bart sub than" (1856) as well as the novella "Billy Budd" (published in 1924), he was revered as the greatest American novelists for centuries. < br>