Reading long fiction novels never get old. James Fenimore Cooper life of moving to Lake Otsego and his father being a writer add to the stories he wrote. James early life led him into writing, which then led him into writing some of the bet book for is era and for those reasons plenty of people have analyzed his work.
James Fenimore Cooper lived a great life. James Fenimore was born in September 15, 1789, in Burlington, New Jersey, to a political view writer William and Elizabeth Cooper (Heller). In 1790 when James was thirteen months old his family moved to the wilderness of the southern shore of Otsego Lake in Northern New York (Rosenblum). Cooper went to the local academy there in Cooperstown, and then was sent off to a preparatory school in Albany (Charles). After the preparatory school, thirteen year old Cooper entered Yale, were he studied for two years before being expelled for blowing up a classmate’s door (Rosenblum). After being expelled he was put on the ship, The Stirling, in 1804 which he went through adventures that eventually became his nautical novels (Rosenblum). After being on the Stirling he joined the navy and served on Lake Ontario. Then, in 1811, he married his love Susan Auguste DeLency (Heller). Mr. Cooper and his family moved to Paris where he sold his books and then later returned to America in 1833 (Charles). When he returned from Europe, he settled in Cooperstown where he wrote sixteen more novels and found his Episcopalian religious beliefs (Heller). Mr. Cooper died in Cooperstown just one day before his 61 birthday on September 14, 1851 (Higgins).
Mr. Cooper wrote long fiction and also nonfiction books. While novels were Cooper’s best, he also tried to write short stories, biographies, and a play (...
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