Allan Melville, great-grandfather of Herman Melville, removed from Scotland to America in 1748, and established himself as a merchant in Boston.
Herman Melville was born in New York on August 1,1819, and received his early education in that city.
On the hither side of Pittsfield sits Herman Melville, shaping out the gigantic conception of his 'White Whale,' while the gigantic shadow of Greylock looms upon him from his study window.
'I have made my first literary pilgrimage, a call upon Herman Melville,the renowned author of 'Typee,' etc.
The condition of my right hand obliges me to dictate this to my son; but painful as it is to me to hold a pen, I cannot suffer this letter to reach the hands of a man of so admirable genitis as Herman Melville without begging him to believe me to be, with my own hand, his most respectful and hearty admirer, W.
Richard Henry Stoddard, of American writers, specially knew and appreciated Herman Melville. Mr.
Ann Charters pursued her early interests in
Herman Melville and Charles Olson through multiple media, and one of the more unusual--and probably least recognized--examples of this scholarly thread in the Charters canon is Melville in the Berkshires: A Construct, a box containing Melville and Olson materials.
The author analyzes three encyclopedic novels from Mexico, Canada, and the US--Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra, Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead--as well as the precursor of
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Herman Melville - United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891)