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James Fenimore Cooper Essay, Research Paper

James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey

on September 15, 1789. He was the eleventh of twelve children born to

William and Elizabeth Cooper. When James was one year old the family

moved to the frontier, and his father established the settlement of

Cooperstown at the head of the Susquehanna River.

Cooper attended a private preparatory school in Albany, New York,

and was then admitted to Yale in 1803. He was expelled during his junior

year because of a prank. His family allowed him to join the navy as a

midshipman, but he soon found that more discipline was present in the Navy

than at Yale. In 1810 Cooper took a furlough, and never returned to active

duty.

Cooper married Susan De Lancy in 1811, and for the next ten years he

led the life of a country gentleman. However, after the death of all five of his

elder brothers he became responsible for supporting their widows and paying

their debts. Added to this was the fact that his father’s estate had not been

worth as much as originally thought.

In 1820 Cooper published his first fiction, Precaution, on a challenge

from his wife and it was not successful. Then in 1821 he published his

second novel book, The Spy which had brought international fame and a

certain amount of wealth to Cooper.

Cooper’s third book, The Pioneers, was the first of five novels that

made up the Leatherstocking Tales. These were immensely popular frontier

novels featuring a frontiersman by the name of Natty Bumpo, or Hawkeye.

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The Pioneers is generally considered to be the first truly American

novel. The five novels of the series were not written in their narrative order,

and were produced over a period of eighteen years.

Cooper and his wife had five children, and they lived in Europe from

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