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James Fenimore Cooper

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Sep 14, 1851
Zodiac
Virgo
Born in
Burlington NJ
About
An American writer known for his historical tales of Indian and frontier life, he is particularly famous for his Leatherstocking series. Cooper's Leatherstocking hero, Natty Bumppo, was also the protagonist of his best-known novel, The Last of the Mohicans (1826).
Family
He married Susan Augusta de Lancey in 1811 and made good on his promise that he could write a better novel than any of the books she was reading. He and de Lancey became parents to seven children.

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