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Herman Melville Facts
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Herman Melville was suffering from serious writer's block with Moby-Dick until he read Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story collection Mosses From an Old Manse. He was inspired and eventually dedicate...
Family
Father: Allan Melvill (1782-1832)Mother: Maria Gansevoort Melville (1791-1872)Brother: Gansevoort Melville (1815-1846)Sister: Helen Maria Melville Griggs (1817-1888)Sister: Augusta Melville (182...
