Herman Melville

Herman Melville (August 1 1819 – September 28 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet. During his own lifetime his early novels, South Seas adventures, were quite popular, but his audience declined later in his life. By the time of his death he had nearly been forgotten, but his masterpiece, Moby-Dick, was "rediscovered" in following years and he is now widely esteemed as one of the most important figures in American literature.

External links

• {{gutenberg author|id=Herman_Melville|name=Herman Melville}}
• Billy Budd -- the whole text, free
• Moby-Dick Gutenberg EText
• Review by glbtq - "Herman Melville reflects his homosexuality throughout his texts".
• Poststructuralist analysis of Billy Budd by Elmer G. Wiens