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James Fenimore Cooper (born September 15, 1789, Burlington, New Jersey, U.S.—died September 14, 1851, Cooperstown, New York) was the first major American novelist. He wrote the series of novels of frontier adventure known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring the wilderness scout called Natty Bumppo, or Hawkeye.
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.
James Fenimore Cooper has 4272 books on Goodreads with 267750 ratings. James Fenimore Cooper’s most popular book is The Last of the Mohicans (The Leather...
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May 29, 2018 · James Fenimore Cooper was a pioneer of American literature and the first writer to popularize the American West. Frustrated that most novels available in America were about English society, Cooper penned several books that have since become American classics.
Aug 16, 2019 · James Fenimore Cooper was a popular American author. Born in 1789 in New Jersey, he became part of the Romantic literary movement. Many of his novels were influenced by the years he spent in the U.S. Navy. He was a prolific writer producing something almost every year from 1820 until his death in 1851.
James Fenimore Cooper - Novelist, American Frontier, Leatherstocking Tales: Though most renowned as a prolific novelist, he did not simply retire to his study after the success of The Spy.
James Fenimore Cooper, (born Sept. 15, 1789, Burlington, N.J., U.S.—died Sept. 14, 1851, Cooperstown, N.Y.), The first major U.S. novelist. Cooper grew up in a prosperous family in the settlement of Cooperstown, founded by his father.
James Fenimore Cooper. Writer: The Last of the Mohicans. Favorite writer of generations of Americans, Cooper was born on Tuesday, September 15th, 1789, and grew up on his family's huge wooded settlement, in Cooperstown, New York, which his father, William Cooper, a prominent Federalist, had founded before this son's birth.
James Fenimore Cooper was a popular and prolific American writer. He is best known for his historical novel The Last of the Mohicans, one of the Leatherstocking Tales stories, and he also wrote political fiction, maritime fiction, travelogues, and essays on the American politics of the time.
James Fenimore Cooper, a renowned social critic and novelist, was born on 15 th September 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey, to William Cooper, a political activist, and Elizabeth, a housewife.
