![]() ![]() The story was set during the American Revolution and featured George Washington as a character. ![]() His first novel, Precaution, modeled on Jane Austen, was not successful, but his second, The Spy, influenced by the popular writings of Sir Walter Scott, became a bestseller, making Cooper the first major American novelist. Having drifted for a decade, Cooper began writing a novel after his wife challenged him to write something better than he was reading at the moment. When Cooper was about 20, his father died, and he became financially independent. Cooper attended Yale but joined the Navy after he was expelled for a prank. One of the earliest distinctive American novels, the book is the second of the five-novel series called the “Leatherstocking Tales.”Ĭooper was born in 1789 in New Jersey and moved the following year to the frontier in upstate New York, where his father founded frontier-town Coopersville. ![]() On February 4, 1826, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is published. ![]()
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