James Fenimore Cooper

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American writer human novelist

James Fenimore Cooper was a 19th-century American novelist best known for his historical adventure tales, particularly the "Leatherstocking Tales" series featuring the frontier scout Natty Bumppo.

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American writer → human → novelist →
activeYearsEnd	1851 →
activeYearsStart	1820 →
birthDate	1789-09-15 →
birthPlace	Burlington, New Jersey, United States →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
createdCharacter	Natty Bumppo →
deathDate	1851-09-14 →
deathPlace	Cooperstown, New York, United States →
educatedAt	Yale College →
familyName	Cooper →
father	William Cooper →
fullName	James Fenimore Cooper →
genre	adventure fiction → historical fiction → sea story →
givenName	James →
hasLiterarySetting	American Revolutionary era → American frontier → French and Indian War →
influenced	Herman Melville → Honoré de Balzac → Mark Twain → Victor Hugo →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
militaryBranch	United States Navy →
movement	Romanticism →
notableFor	depictions of Native Americans and frontier life → early American frontier fiction →
notableWork	The Deerslayer → The Last of the Mohicans → The Leatherstocking Tales → The Pathfinder → The Pilot → The Pioneers → The Prairie → The Red Rover → The Spy →
occupation	essayist → novelist → writer →
placeOfBurial	Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Cooperstown, New York, United States →
positionHeld	midshipman →
religion	Episcopalianism →
series	Leatherstocking Tales →
servedIn	United States Navy →
spouse	Susan Augusta DeLancey →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
The Leatherstocking Tales → The Pathfinder → The Pioneers → The Prairie → The Red Rover → The Spy →	author
Natty Bumppo →	creator
James Fenimore Cooper →	fullName
Sir Walter Scott →	influenced
Cooperstown, New York →	namedAfter
American Romanticism →	notableAuthor
Harper & Brothers →	notableAuthorPublished
Christ Episcopal Churchyard, Cooperstown, New York, United States →	notableBurial
A Fable for Critics →	portrays