11/16/2025
Before he wrote the Great American Novel, Herman Melville was:
· A teenage runaway at sea
· Held in a "cannibal" paradise
· A failed novelist who turned to poetry
His life is as epic as his books.
He spent his youth chasing whales and his maturity chasing meaning and caught neither, at least not while he lived. The restless life Born in New York City on August...