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Herman Melville was born in New York City
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He workes as a crew member on several vessels
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His experiences spawning hisearly novels succesful early novels:
Typee (1846)
Omoo (1847) -
Subsquent books, inclunding his masterpiece Moby-Dick
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El murió en New York City y se convirtió en uno de los mejores escritores americanos.