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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 (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.
Oct 27, 2021 · The preeminent American novelist of the first half of the 19th century, James Fenimore Cooper (b. 1789–d. 1851) was a prolific writer best known for his five-novel saga The Leatherstocking Tales. Cooper’s productivity from 1820 to 1851 is virtually unrivaled, publishing thirty-two novels, several books of nonfiction, a few histories, and ...
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.
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. The Spy (1821), set during the American Revolution, brought him fame.
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific American writer who spent most of his life in Cooperstown, New York, near a lake surrounded by the Iroquois of the Six Nations. Cooper crafted a unique form of literature writing historical romances about frontier and indian life.
At the height of his fame in the early nineteenth century, James Fenimore Cooper was America’s foremost novelist and one of the most successful writers in the world. Judgments on his stature as a novelist have been less generous since that time, but few would dispute the cultural significance of his innovative tales.
