Herman Melville:
(New York, 1 August 1819 – there, 28 September 1891).
American writer of novels, novellas, and poems.
His best-known works are the novels Typee (1846) and Moby-Dick (1851) and the novellas Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) and Benito Cereno (1855). In his time, South Sea adventures were a popular literary genre in the United States, but by the time of his death he had been virtually forgotten.
God’s only real voice is silence.
