James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer born in 1789 in New Jersey. He is known for his historical fiction works, most notably the Leatherstocking Tales series which features frontiersman Natty Bumppo. The Tales include The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, The Pathfinder, and The Prairie. Cooper had a privileged upbringing and attended Yale University before beginning his writing career with novels like The Spy and establishing himself as an important early American author.

1. Creative work of James
Fennimore Cooper
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2. An American writer , was
born in 1789 September 15
Genre of writing – historical
fiction
Notable works – The Last of
the Mohicans

3. Early years
• Cooper’s mother, Elizabeth
Fennimore, was a member
of a respectable New Jersey
Quaker family, and his
father, William, founded a
frontier settlement at the
source of the Susquehanna
River (now Cooperstown,
New York) and served as a
Federalist congressman
during the administrations
of George
Washington and John
Adams.

4. He was doubtless fortunate to be the 11th of 12 children, for he was spared
the worst hardships of frontier life while he was able to benefit educationally
from both the rich oral traditions of his family and a material prosperity that
afforded him a gentleman’s education. After private schooling in Albany,
Cooper attended Yale from 1803 to 1805.

6. The Spy
Cooper’s second novel, it was
published in 1821 by Wiley & Halsted.
The plot is set during the American
Revolution and was inspired in part by
the family friend John Jay.[1] The
Spy was successful and began Cooper's
reputation as a popular and important
American writer.

7. The Pioneers
It was the first of five novels published
which became known as
the Leatherstocking Tales. Published in
1823, The Pioneers is the fourth novel
in terms of the chronology of the
novels' plots.

8. Last of Mohicans
is a historical romance written in
1826.It is the second book of
the Leatherstocking
Tales pentalogy and the best known to
contemporary audiences.The Last of
the Mohicans is set in 1757, during
the French and Indian War (the North
American theater of the Seven Years'
War), when France and Great
Britain battled for control of North
America.

9. Collection of novels ‘’Leather-Stocking
Tales ‘’

10. Leather – stocking Tales
• The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five
novels. Each novel features Natty Bumppo, a
frontiersman known to European-American
settlers as "Leatherstocking", "The
Pathfinder",[and "the trapper".Native
Americans call him "Deerslayer", "La Longue
Carabine" ("Long Rifle" in French),and
"Hawkeye".

11. Characters
• Natty Bumppo is the protagonist of the series: an
Anglo-American raised in part by Native Americans,
and later a near-fearless warrior (his chief weapon is
the long rifle).[15] He and his Mohican "brother"
Chingachgook are constant companions. He is known
as "Deerslayer" in The Deerslayer,[16] "Hawkeye" and
"La Longue Carabine" in The Last of the
Mohicans,[17] "Pathfinder" in The
Pathfinder,[18] "Leatherstocking" in The
Pioneers,[19] and "the trapper" in The Prairie.[20] The
novels recount significant events in Natty Bumppo's life
from 1740-1806.

12. Characters
• Chingachgook is
a Mohican chief and
companion of Bumppo. He is
present in all the books except
for The Prairie, as he dies of
old age after narrowly
escaping a forest fire in The
Pioneers.
• Uncas, son of Chingachgook,
"last of the
Mohicans",[24] grew to
manhood, but was killed in a
battle with the hostile
scout Magua. In actual history,
a man named Uncas was a
chief of the Mohegan in the
1600s.[25] Though a
prominent figure only in The
Last of the Mohicans, he is
mentioned as a boy at the very
end of The Deerslayer, only
once by name in The
Pathfinder, and several times
in The Prairie.

13. 1989 USSR stamp, on themes of James Fenimore
Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales

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Social novels of James Fennimore Cooper
in 40-50 ss

15. Mercedes of Castile: or, The
Voyage to Cathay novel
;location and period -
Christopher
Columbus in West Indies,
1490s

16. The Chainbearer; or, The
Little page Manuscripts
novel ; location and period -
Westchester County,
Adirondacks, 1780s. Next
Little page generation tries
to settle in their lands after
the Revolutionary War

17. The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak:
A Tale of the
Pacific[105] (Mark's
Reef)novel ;location and
period -Philadelphia, Bristol
(PA), & deserted Pacific
island, early 19th century
Utopia destroyed by political
strife

18. The Oak Openings: or the
Bee-Hunter[107]novel
location and period -
Kalamazoo River, Michigan,
War of 1812

19. The Sea Lions: The Lost
Sealers[108]novel ;location
and period - Long Island &
Antarctica, 1819–1820.
Heavy emphasis on religion.