James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the nineteenth century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries brought him fame and fortune. He spent much of his boyhood and his last fifteen years in Cooperstown, New York. He lived from 1789 to 1851, and The Last of the Mohicans is his best-known novel.
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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
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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789
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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. He lived
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Romanziere americano
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Joseph Conrad, Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville and Jack London as influences
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The work of writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, Gabriel Ferry, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Balduin Möllhausen and Mayne Reid served as his models.
Wikipedia: The Last of the Mohicans
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Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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