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Herman Melville


In 1850 while writing The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne's
publisher introduced him to another writer who was in the midst of a novel. This
was Herman Melville, the book Moby Dick. Hawthorne and Melville became good
friends at once, for despite their dissimilar backgrounds, they had a great deal
in common. Melville was a New Yorker, born in 1819, one of eight children of a
merchant of distinguished lineage. His father, however, lost all his money and
died when the boy was 12. Herman left school at 15, worked briefly as a bank
clerk, and in 1837 went to sea. For 18 months, in 1841 and 1842, he was crewman
on the whaler Acushnet. Then he jumped ship in the South Seas. For a time he
lived among a tribe of cannibals in the Marquesas. Later he made his way to
Tahiti where he idled away nearly a year. After another year at sea he returned
to America in the fall of 1844.

Although he had never before attempted serious writing, in 1846 he
published Typee an......

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