Moby Dick | Author Biography

Melville dedicated Moby-Dick to Nathaniel Hawthorne “in admiration for his genius.” The two met in 1850 when Melville moved from New York to Pittsfield, Massachusetts. For a time, Melville and his family lived on a 160-acre farm called Arrowhead, where he finished the writing of Moby-Dick in 1851.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick, like many of Melville’s other sea stories, is based on life experience. In...

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