JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (The Last of the Mohicans)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American novelist of the 19th century. He wrote thirty-four adventure novels. The most important were Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), Trapper (1840) and The Deerslayer (1841).

He studied at Albany, New York, and Yale (New Haven, Connecticut). He formed friendships and relationships with several aristocratic families at that time.

His first novel, Precautions, was written by an event in his private life: to write a book more interesting than the book which his wife was reading.  His next book was The Spy. Its most widespread novel, The Last of the Mohicans, shows us his more accustomed themes: the sea and borders, the settler and redskins. He tried to write a history of the Navy. He always did a contrast between the violence of the narrating and the slowness of his prose.