James Fenimore Cooper

Youth and studies

It goes to school to Albany and New Haven. There enters to the university of Yale at the 14 years age and remains youngest studying ever entered this university. Three years after, it engages in the American navy. It Marie and puts an end to her career of sailor in 1811. It settles then with in the county of Westchester (State of New York). From 1826 to 1833, he lives in Europe.

Its literary career

Its first novel Precaution passes unperceived. But very quickly, with its second novel The spy ( the spy ), it meets a great success.

Part of its work is based on the accounts of the Indiens of North. Its novels have as a framework the territories which his/her father (who was judge and member of the Congress) had colonized. It described in the series Leatherstocking ( Bas of leather ) the Franco-British fights in North America at the 18th century. Hero, Natty Bumper , (known as Bas of leather or Œil of falcon ), which was collected child by the Indians, the man of the borders represents. The series Bas of leather is made up of five novels, of which the Last of Mohicans , the Meadow and the deer Killer.

the Last of Mohicans , its most famous novel, knew many republications, including one magnificiently illustrated by Rene Follet. He wrote many novels on the sea such as The Waterwitch . But its work is of unequal quality and its novel the American Democrat (1835) was worth a lawsuit to him.

Heritage

It is one of the American writers most popular of the 19th century. Balzac was a critical admiror and took as a starting point Bas of leather to write Chouans . Victor Hugo qualified it large Master of the modern literature. His/her daughter, Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813 - 1894), was writer and philanthropist.

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