James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey on September 15, 1789 to William and Elizabeth Cooper. He was born the eleventh of twelve children. When James was one year old the family moved to the frontier of Lake Otsego, New York, and his father established the settlement of Cooperstown at the head of the Susquehanna River. Cooper attended a private prep school in Albany, New York, and was then admitted to Yale …showed first 75 words of 452 total…

…showed last 75 words of 452 total…his father. Cooper died at Cooperstown on September 14, 1851, one day before his sixty-second birthday. Cooper was, and continues to be, an immensely popular writer, and he is generally considered to be the first major American novelist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliography Fields, Wayne. James Fenimore Cooper. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. “Historic Burlington City, NJ.” Internet. October 10, 2000. Available: http://bc.scream.org/index.html?cooper.html&3. “James Fenimore Cooper.” Internet. October 11, 2000. Available: www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~maria/cooper/biograph.htm.