James Fenimore Cooper

Born September 15, 1789· Burlington, New Jersey, USA

† Died September 14, 1851

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Raised in Cooperstown after an early childhood in Burlington, New Jersey, and expelled from Yale while still a teenager, he turned to seafaring, first as a merchant sailor and later as a U.S. Navy midshipman, experiences that infused his writing with vivid nautical detail. A debut espionage novel set in the Revolutionary War sparked his literary reputation, while a series of frontier epics produce… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources