James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper was born on Sep 15, 1789 in USA. James Fenimore Cooper's big-screen debut came with The Last of the Mohicans directed by Theodore Marston in 1911. James Fenimore Cooper is known for The Last of the Mohicans directed by Michael Mann, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Hawkeye (Nathaniel Poe) and Madeleine Stowe as Cora Munro. The upcoming new movie James Fenimore Cooper plays is The Pathfinder which will be released on Jun 02, 1996.

Favorite writer of generations of Americans, Cooper was born on Tuesday, September 15th, 1789, and grew up on his family's huge wooded settlement, in Cooperstown, New York, which his father, William Cooper, a prominent Federalist, had founded before this son's birth. His days as a Yale student were cut short when he was expelled for misbehavior. He gamely joined the navy, earning the rank of midshipman. On New Year's Day, Tuesday, January 1st, 1811 he married Susan Augusta De Lancey, settling down and writing prolifically, politically, and prodigiously. Eventually he and his wife moved south to an estate in Scarsdale, New York, where he continued to write and publish his critical, thoughtful, and creative works. Cooper died at Cooperstown on Sunday, September 14th, 1851, one day shy of reaching sixty-two.