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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – 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.
James Cooper (his mother's family name of Fenimore was legally added in 1826) was born in Burlington, N.J., on Sept. 15, 1789, the eleventh of 12 children of William Cooper, a pioneering landowner and developer in New Jersey and New York.
James Cooper (minister) (1846–1922), Church of Scotland minister and church historian; James Scott Cooper (1874–1931), Canadian businessman and noted bootlegger; James Cooper (shoe merchant), 19th-century Canadian shoe merchant who built James Cooper House; James Cooper (pitcher) (born 1919), American baseball player
The "keen-eyed critic of the ocean": James Fenimore Cooper's Invention of the Sea Novel, by Luis Iglesias at the Cooper Panel of the 2006 Conference of the American Literature Association in San Francisco. Carl Van Doren (1920). "Pilot, The" . In Rines, George Edwin (ed.). Encyclopedia Americana. The Pilot, or A Tale of the Sea – ESAT. (2021 ...
The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by American author James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. The inland sea of the title is Lake Ontario.
The Pioneers was the first novel of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales series, featuring the character Natty Bumppo, a resourceful white American living in the woods. The story focuses on the development of a "wilderness" area (as classified by European Americans) as a settled European-American community with refinements.
Natty Bumppo, referred to also as Davey Shipman, is a character in Lauren Groff's novel The Monsters of Templeton, along with Chingachgook and James Franklin Temple, a version of the author James Fenimore Cooper. Natty Bumppo is referenced as a nickname in Leif Enger's Peace Like A River.
The Crater, or Vulcan's Peak: a Tale of the Pacific is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1847.Cooper incorporated knowledge of ship construction he had acquired while working as a U.S. Navy midshipman in the 1810s.