허먼 멜빌

소개

허먼 멜빌(Herman Melville, 1819년 8월 1일 ~ 1891년 9월 28일)은 미국의 소설가이자, 수필가이며 시인이다.

Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.