Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville (1819?1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his "The Piazza Tales" in 1856. Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 ? September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, became a bestseller), after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s.