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Name
  
Henry Melville

Role
  
Novelist

Plays
  
Billy Budd


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Died
  
September 28, 1891, New York City, New York, United States

Influenced by
  
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe

Books
  
Moby Dick, Bartleby - the Scrivener, Typee, Omoo, Benito Cereno

Similar People
  
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Moby, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau

Henry Melville (1799-1873) was an Australian author and journalist best remembered for writing the play The Bushrangers. The life of Henry Melville was dramatized in an 1882 Princess Theatre (Bendigo) production.

References

Henry Melville Wikipedia