The writer who faded to obscurity in the nineteenth century but was recognized as one of America's greatest literary geniuses in the twentieth century and wrote the masterpiece work of fiction, Moby Dick, was

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The writer who faded to obscurity in the nineteenth century but was recognized as one of America's greatest literary geniuses in the twentieth century and wrote the masterpiece work of fiction, Moby Dick, was

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The writer who faded to obscurity in the nineteenth century but was recognized as one of America's greatest literary geniuses in the twentieth century and wrote the masterpiece work of fiction, Moby Dick, was Herman Melville. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Walt Whitman were all prominent writers during the nineteenth century, but did not write Moby Dick.

The Writer Who Faded to Obscurity in the Nineteenth Century