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Recording artist MOBY gave himself that stage name because his great-great-great-uncle was Heman Melville, author of Moby Dick.
Herman Melville's most famous book Moby-Dick was published in 1851. It was based on Herman's experiences aboard whaling ships and a story about whalers on the ship the Essex that sank in 1920 after being attacked by a sperm whale.
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When Moby-Dick was published it was not received well by readers or critics. It sold only 500 copies in the United Kingdom when it was published. It was nearly 100 years before it became popular and critically acclaimed.
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The animal with the largest teeth in history was the Livyatan melvillei an extinct sperm whale. It had teeth up to 14.3inches(36.2cm) long and its name was inspired by the biblical sea monster the Leviathon and Moby Dick's Author Herman Melville.
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Nathaniel became friends with the author of Moby Dick, Herman Melville.
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Herman Melville died on September 28th, 1891 in New York City from a heart attack. He never knew how popular or well-regarded his work became. Herman Melville is considered to be one of America's greatest literary writers and Moby-Dick is considered by many to be a masterpiece.
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Herman Melville wrote 11 books including Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847), Mardi: And a Voyage Thither (1849), Redburn: His First Voyage (1849), White Jacket (1850), Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre (1852), Isle of the Cross (1853), Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855), The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857), and Billy Budd, Sailor (1924).
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“Moby Dick” was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891.
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Singer/Musician/Producer Moby was named in honor of his relative Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick
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In the book Moby Dick, the Blue Whale, is listed as "uncertain, fugitive and half-fabulous", when the author attempts to create a category of every whale type.
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Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick, once deserted his ship at the Marquesas Islands and lived with cannibals
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Musician Moby is supposedly the great-great-great-grandson of Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick
The musician "Moby" got the name because he is a distant relative of Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick - source
