He went on to produce a total of fifty works during his lifetime. She challenged him to make good his boast, thus setting him on his career as an author.Ĭooper’s first novel was Precaution (1820), which had little success, but his next book, The Spy, published the following year, established his reputation. An apocryphal story has it that Cooper, after throwing aside a novel his wife had been reading, said to her, ‘I could write you a better book than that myself’. In 1811 he married Susan Delancy, a descendant of one of the early governors of New York colony, and settled down in Scarsdale, where for a time he led the life of a country gentleman. After the assassination of his father in 1809 by a political opponent, he resigned from the navy. He was expelled in 1805 for his part in some prank, and joined the navy, in which he served as a midshipman. He attended school at Albany, and at thirteen was sent to Yale, where he was the youngest member of his class. His father, Judge William Cooper, founded the frontier village of Cooperstown in the lake region of New York State, to which the family moved when James was a year old. James Fenimore Cooper, considered to be the first important American novelist, was born in Burlington, New Jersey on 15 September, 1789. Titles by James Fenimore Cooper Titles by James Fenimore Cooper More Classic American Short Stories (unabridged) The Interpretation of Dreams (unabridged) The Last of the Mohicans (abridged) The Last of the Mohicans (unabridged) Booklet Notes
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