# Herman Melville

> He wrote what's now called the Great American Novel, but died unknown. Moby-Dick bombed in 1851, critics savaged his follow-ups, and Melville spent his last decades as a customs inspector, privately printing poetry no one read. The revival didn't start until 1919 - twenty-eight years after his death.

*American writer and poet (1819-1891)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1819-08-01
- **Died:** 1891-09-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born August 1, 1819, in New York City, Melville was the son of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family broke. He went to sea in 1839 as a common sailor, then shipped on the whaler Acushnet in 1841 before jumping ship in the Marquesas. His first books - Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), romanticized South Pacific adventures - sold well enough that he married the daughter of a Boston jurist. But Moby-Dick, which took a year and a half to write, found no audience, and Pierre was scorned. He turned to magazine stories ("Bartleby," "Benito Cereno") and published his last prose work, The Confidence-Man, in 1857. By 1863 he was a New York customs inspector, writing poetry in private. His son Malcolm died from a self-inflicted gunshot in 1867; another son, Stanwix, died of tuberculosis in 1886. Melville retired that year, left Billy Budd unfinished, and died of cardiovascular disease on September 28, 1891.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 77.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 6.3 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 27.9 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578479/ (@nm0578479)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.melville.orh

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Poetry, #Literature, #Fiction, #United States, #Americas, #19th Century

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