Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.
HERMAN MELVILLE was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the
son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young
Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to
Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in
January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific.
Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way
to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate
United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844.
Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850
he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts
(where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel
Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick. But
literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated
readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned
from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil
War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a
deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died.
A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left
unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where
it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.
JESSICA HISCHE is a letterer, illustrator, typographer, and web
designer. She currently serves on the Type Directors Club board of
directors, has been named a Forbes Magazine "30 under 30" in art
and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of Print Magazine's
"New Visual Artists". She has designed for Wes Anderson,
McSweeney's, Tiffany & Co, Penguin Books and many others. She
resides primarily in San Francisco, occasionally in Brooklyn.
Winner of the 2012 Fifty Books/Fifty Covers show, organized by
Design Observer in association with AIGA and Designers & Books
Winner of the 2014 Type Directors Club Communication Design
Award
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