James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was born in New Jersey but
grew up in Cooperstown, NY, founded by his father when Cooper was
one year old. He enrolled at Yale at the age of thirteen, but was
expelled in his third year for misbehavior. He then sailed before
the mast as a merchant seaman and as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy,
experiences that led to his successful sea novels, such as The
Pilot (1823). The Leatherstocking Tales were published from 1823 to
1841. Arranged according to the chronology of their hero, Natty
Bumppo, who appears under various names in all five romances, the
sequence is The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The
Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie.
John Stauffer is a professor of English, African, and
African American Studies, and the History of American Civilization
at Harvard University. He is the author of the award-winning The
Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation
of Race (2002) and numerous essays in such publications as Time,
Raritan, and 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography.
Thomas Berger (1924-2014) worked as a librarian and a
journalist before his first novel, Crazy in Berlin, was published
in 1958. Other novels include Little Big Man (1964), Neighbors
(1980), The Feud (1984), Best Friends (2003), and Adventures of the
Artificial Woman (2004).
"His memory will exist in the hearts of the people...[and his
works] should find a place in every American's library."--Daniel
Webster "Cooper emphatically belongs to the nation. He has left a
space in our literature which will not easily be
supplied."--Washington Irving
His memory will exist in the hearts of the people...[and his works]
should find a place in every American s library. Daniel Webster
Cooper emphatically belongs to the nation. He has left a space in
our literature which will not easily be supplied. Washington
Irving"
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