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Cooper, James Fenimore |
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Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)US writer, considered the first great US novelist. He wrote some 50 novels, mostly about the frontier, wilderness life, and the sea, first becoming popular with The Spy (1821). He is best remembered for his series of Leatherstocking Tales, focusing on the frontier hero Natty Bumppo and the American Indians before and after the American Revolution; they include The Last of the Mohicans (1826). Still popular as adventures, his novels have been reappraised for their treatment of social and moral issues in the settling of the American frontier.
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