Fenimore Cooper began writing after a “dare” laid down by his wife, Susan, about whether he could write something better novel than a novel Susan liked.
After study, in his teens, at Yale-where he did not graduate, because of his early dismissal for violating the university’s rules-Fenimore Cooper served for several years in the US Navy, then came into the family’s fortune and settled back in New York City and in Cooperstown.
Related to a line of Quakers who had emigrated from England to the Northeastern United States, James Fenimore Cooper grew up in upper-middle-class comfort on the shores of Lake Otsego, in a town planned and constructed by his father: Cooperstown, New York.
0 kommentar(er)
