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.
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