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Herman Melville (born Melvill;[a] August 1 1819 - September 28 1891) was an American novelist short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846) a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd Sailor a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels. Melville was born in New York City the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits.