James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years

by Wayne Franklin

A definitive new biography of James Fenimore Cooper, early nineteenth century master of American popular fiction

American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) has been credited with inventing and popularizing a wide variety of genre fiction, including the Western, the spy novel, the high seas adventure tale, and the Revolutionary War romance. America's first crusading novelist, Cooper reminds us that literature is not a cloistered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300135718
• ISBN13: 9780300135718
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 840 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"