Herman Melville                           American novelist, short story writer, and poet.                                             BIOGRAPHY         Herman Melville was born in New York, New York on August 1, 1819 (Hom-Par 1913). According to Kalasky Melville had a comfortable will to do childhood up until 1832 the year his father died. He was forced to quit his studies at New York Male High School to help support his family. He worked for his brothers fur business, at a bank as a clerk, and taught at numerous …showed first 75 words of 1206 total…

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