Pic Description: Herman Melville (Herman Melville, 1819 年 8 月 1 日 -1891 on September 28), American novelist, essayist and poet. Because his family was poor, did the farmer, staff, teachers, sailors, naval and other duties, and later became the novelist, who, with his experience as a basis in fact written in the sea of its allegorical masterpiece, "Moby Dick" (1851), the novel is considered to be one of the greatest American novels. British writer Somer_set_ Maugham in the "world's top ten writers and their representatives," a book of "Moby Dick" of the evaluation is far Poe and other writers in the United States on top of Mark Twain. Melville unknown during his lifetime, the poor worry about down and out to the end, in "Moby Dick" was published seven years to get name exposure; His works include short stories, such as "Bart are higher than the clerk," (1856), and medium-length novel "Billy Budd" (published 1924).