Herman Melville

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  • BirthName: Herman Melvill
    Sometime after the death of his father, HM 's mother added an e to the end of the family surname.
    “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Milestones

1 August 1819

HM , novelist, was born at 6 Pearl Street in New York.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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28 September 1891

HM , novelist, died in New York of heart problems.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Biography

Birth and Family

1 August 1819

HM , novelist, was born at 6 Pearl Street in New York.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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