1. The Life and Works of Herman Melville
Herman Melville was born August, 1, 1819, in New York City. ... Herman Melville worked as a bank clerk before attending the Albany Classical School, and then worked for a short time as a teacher in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. ... In the summer of 1850, under the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne's, "The Scarlet Letter," Melville bought the Arrowhead farm near Pittsfield so that he could live near Hawthorne, and the two men, who shared similar philosophies, became close. The relationship with Hawthorne reawakened Melville's creative energies, and in 1851 Melville published his most re...
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