James Fenimore Cooper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

James Fenimore Cooper

American author

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1789

Place of Birth: Burlington, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 14-Sep-1851

Profession: writer, military officer, biographer, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About James Fenimore Cooper

  • James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century.
  • His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature.
  • He lived much of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William on property that he owned.
  • Cooper became a member of the Episcopal Church shortly before his death and contributed generously to it.
  • He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society.After a stint on a commercial voyage, Cooper served in the U.S.
  • Navy as a midshipman, where he learned the technology of managing sailing vessels which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings.
  • The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counter-espionage set during the American Revolutionary War and published in 1821.
  • He also created American sea stories.
  • His best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period, written between 1823 and 1841, known as the Leatherstocking Tales, which introduced the iconic American frontier scout, Natty Bumppo.
  • Cooper's works on the U.S.
  • Navy have been well received among naval historians, but they were sometimes criticized by his contemporaries.
  • Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece (although it was mercilessly mocked by Mark Twain).
  • Throughout his career, he wrote numerous social, political and historical fiction and non-fiction with the objective of countering European prejudices and nurturing an original American art and culture.

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