Question: Who's best known work include "Typee", a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel "Moby-Dick" that was interpreted as a 2004 French short film directed by Philippe Ramos?
Context: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published first in London, then New York, in 1846.  Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is partly based on the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, liberally supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other books.  The title is from the province Tai Pi Vai.  "Typee" was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime; it made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals". The third edition of the Champs-Élysées Film Festival was held from 11 to 17 June 2014, with actors Jacqueline Bisset and Bertrand Tavernier as Honorary Presidents and Keanu Reeves, Agnès Varda, Whit Stillman and Mike Figgis as Guests of Honor.  More than 120,000 people attended the Festival, with more than 110 films screened.  Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz's "" was shown at the Closing Ceremony.  Along with its competitive Official Selections for American feature-length films, American Shorts and French Shorts, the Festival presented a wide selection of important American and French movie premieres, the TCM Cinema Essentials, a thirteen-film selection of American classics, and the Great French Classics, a five-film selection.  Both Honorary Presidents held masterclasses, and the Guests of Honor presented each a selection of their respective filmographies.  Three Audience Prizes (Best American Feature-Length Film, Best American Short Film, Best French Short Film), a Bloggers Jury Award (Best American Feature-Length Film) and a Youth Jury Award (Favorite Film in the TCM Cinema Essentials Selection) were presented during the Closing Ceremony, held at the Publicis Cinema.  Along with the "US in Progress" program, a new event targeted at industry professionals was held alongside the Festival: titled "Paris Coproduction Village" it brought together 12 international feature film projects in development looking for French and European partners, as well as 6 projects from the Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation Residence. Le Mozart des pickpockets (also known as The Mozart of Pickpockets) is a 2006 French short film.  Written and directed by Philippe Pollet-Villard, it won the 2007 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.  It was the only French submission in the category.  Two days before, the film also won its national César Award. Mad Love (original title: Fou d'amour) is a 2015 French drama film directed by Philippe Ramos and starring Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Blanc and Diane Rouxel.  It is an adaptation of Ramos' 1996 short film "Ici-bas", which was in turn inspired by the Affair of the Uruffe priest in the 1950s.  It won the Grand Prix des Amériques at the Montreal World Film Festival. Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.  His best known works include "Typee" (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel "Moby-Dick" (1851).  His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years.  His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change.  He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic, and the abundance of allusion extends to biblical scripture, myth, philosophy, literature, and the visual arts. La Méthode Bourchnikov is a 2004 French short animated film directed by Grégoire Sivan. Capitaine Achab (in English, "Captain Ahab") is a 2004 French short film directed by Philippe Ramos.  It is an interpretation of "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville.  In the film, Albert falls in love with Louise, whose white skin is symbolized in his dreams by the whale Moby Dick.  The film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and Pantin in 2004. The cetology of Moby-Dick is Ishmael's zoological classification of whales. Although a work of fiction, Melville included sequences of chapters concerned largely with a pseudo-objective discussion of the properties of whales.  The observations, based on a list of sources in addition to Melville's own experiences in whaling in the 1840s, include observations of various species from the order of "Cetacea".  These chapters are the most likely to be omitted in abridged versions of the novel. The Silence of Joan (French: Jeanne captive ) is a 2011 French historical film directed by Philippe Ramos and starring Clémence Poésy, Thierry Frémont and Liam Cunningham.  The film was screened in the Directors' Fortnight at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Philippe Ramos (born in 1966) is a French film director, screenwriter and film editor.  He directed an adaptation of "Moby-Dick": "Capitaine Achab" with Valérie Crunchant and Frédéric Bonpart in 2004.
Answer: Herman Melville