Novelist; born in New York; and took to the sea; which led to strange adventures; including an imprisonment of some months in the hands of cannibals in the Marquesas Islands. His first novel; Typee [1846]; is based upon this experience. Omoo followed in 1847; Moby Dick; or the White Whale; a powerful sea story; in 1852; and Israel Potter in 1855. He was a very unequal writer; but occasionally showed considerable power and originality.
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