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Herman Melville

1819 - 1891

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Herman Melville (born Melvill; 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. At the time of his death Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herman Melville has received more than 5,988,186 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). Herman Melville is the 228th most popular writer (down from 201st in 2019), the 201st most popular biography from United States (down from 173rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Writer.

Herman Melville is most famous for writing the novel Moby Dick.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 89

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Herman Melville ranks 228 out of 7,302. Before him are J. K. Rowling, Bram Stoker, Torquato Tasso, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Prosper Mérimée, and Dario Fo. After him are Snorri Sturluson, Mikhail Bulgakov, Shams Tabrizi, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Chinghiz Aitmatov, and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Herman Melville ranks 6. Before him are Queen Victoria, Gustave Courbet, Jacques Offenbach, Clara Schumann, and Léon Foucault. After him are Albert, Prince Consort, Walt Whitman, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Maria II of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1891, Herman Melville ranks 5. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud, Nikolaus Otto, Georges Seurat, and Helena Blavatsky. After him are Pedro II of Brazil, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Sofia Kovalevskaya, P. T. Barnum, Léo Delibes, and Wilhelm Eduard Weber.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herman Melville ranks 201 out of 20,380. Before him are George Lucas (1944), Brigham Young (1801), Jon Voight (1938), Ben Affleck (1972), Samuel P. Huntington (1927), and Whitney Houston (1963). After him are Buster Keaton (1895), Johnny Cash (1932), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Steve McQueen (1930), Thomas Kuhn (1922), and John B. Watson (1878).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Herman Melville ranks 17. Before him are Dr. Seuss (1904), William Faulkner (1897), J. D. Salinger (1919), John Steinbeck (1902), Dale Carnegie (1888), and Ray Bradbury (1920). After him are Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Arthur Miller (1915), Walt Whitman (1819), Philip K. Dick (1928), Emily Dickinson (1830), and Pearl S. Buck (1892).

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