![]() ![]() Richard Hutson is an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. ![]() Cooper, a keen social critic, wrote several well-regarded naval histories. His most famous novels are the Leather-Stocking Tales including The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841), featuring the quintessential American hero Natty Bumppo. With his story The Pilot (1823), Cooper set the style for a new genre of sea fiction. ![]() He attended Yale College until he was expelled for bad behavior. James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) was born in Burlington, New Jersey, and his family moved to Cooperstown, New York, while he was still an infant. ![]()
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