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by James Fenimore Cooper

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

tJ ames Fenimore Cooper was born in

Burlington, New Jersy, 1789. He spent

most of his young life on his father's

estate at Cooperstown, N.Y. which wasthen a frontier landscape that sparked

in Cooper an early interest in the

American Indian which he later carried

over into his literary works. He was sent

to Yale College in 1806, but was later

expelled in his junior year for alleged

insubordination. In 1808 he joined the

Navy and three years later resigned andwas married, settling into a life as a

farmer in Westchester County. Fromthis point, his career as a budding writ-

er proceeded in earnest.

Cooper was prolific, publishing morethan thirty novels, many of them social

pieces, critical of "coonskin" democrats.

In his finest moments he was one of the

most truly American of American au-

thors, who brought to life men ofthe sea

and the primeval forests with a fresh-

ness and power that earned him a

worldwide reputation. He was probably

less influenced by foreign writers in the

literary directions he followed than anyother American writer ofthat time.

Cooper is most famous for his

Leather-stocking Tales, a series of five

interconnected novels, of which, Last of

the Mohicans is the second, though no

two of the novels appeared in their

proper order when first published.

Natty Bumppo, the major figure in

these works is a colorful unforgettable

character, as are Leatherstocking andHawkeye, each in their special way,

representative of the early Americanexperience.

After making an indelible mark on

the consciousness ofhis country, Cooper

retired to his family's estate in

Cooperstown, where he died in Sep-

tember ofl851.

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