Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819 and he passed away at the age of 72 on September 28, 1891. Herman was an American novelist, a short story writer, and a poet from the American renaissance period. Most of Hermans writings were published between 1846 and 1857. Melville was born in New York as the third child of a merchant in french dry-goods, Melville ended his formal education abrutly after his fater died in 1832. IN 1847, Melville married Elizibeth Knapp Shaw, And they had four children that were born between 1849 and 1855. Melvilles children had passed between 1867 and 1938. His oldes child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot in 1867.In 1886 Melville retired as customs inspector and privately published two volumes
