Herman Melville

Notable : Book Collection | American Book | Work : None | 00 midnight in New York, NY (Seaman) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1846 (Book, "Typee") | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1847 (Book, "Omoo") | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1851 (Book, "Moby Dick") | Family : None | Change residence 1863 (Moved family to New York, NY) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1866 (War poems, short stories) | : None | Death by Heart Attack 28 September 1891 (Age 72) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1924 (Book, "Billy Budd") | Traits : Mind | Exceptional mind (Through school by age 15) | Diagnoses : Body Part Problems | Heart (Fatal attack) | Family : Childhood | Disadvantaged (Family in bankruptcy, debt) | Family : Childhood | Family large (Eight kids) | Family : Childhood | Family traumatic event (Age 12 when dad died) | Family : Childhood | Order of birth (Third of eight) | Family : Relationship | Number of Marriages (One) | Family : Parenting | Kids 1-3 (Two) | Family : Parenting | Kids -Traumatic event (First son committed suicide) | Lifestyle : Work | Many job changes | Lifestyle : Work | Same Job more than 10 yrs (Customs Inspector) | Vocation : Education | Public speaker (Lecturer) | Vocation : Military | Military service (U.S. Navy) | Vocation : Politics | Government employee (U.S. Customs Agent) | Vocation : Travel | Adventurer | Vocation : Travel | Crew/ Ship, Train, Bus (Cabinboy, seaman) | Vocation : Writers | Fiction (Novelist) | Vocation : Writers | Poet (Secondary) | Vocation : Misc. | Farmer/ Rancher | Vocation : Misc. | Physical labor | Notable : Famous | Top 5% of Profession