Home in Cooperstown Made Into ParkCOOPERSTOWN, June 19. -- After many years of dilapidation and lack of care the five-acre plot of ground in this village where stood Otsego Hall, the home of James ...

F or many generations, James Fenimore Cooper was a household name. And his books were household books, so to speak.

James Fenimore Cooper is an old-fashioned author, his work the dense, compulsory stuff of mid-level literature-survey courses. Surely, his life and career could have no bearing on our era.

W hen James Fenimore Cooper died on Sepember 14, 1851, a day before his 62nd birthday, friends and admirers planned a gala to celebrate the life and career of America’s first great novelist.

James Fenimore Cooper, once the most familiar of American writers, has by now become very nearly the strangest.

Cooper, with a very keen sense of injustice, conscious of inexhaustible power, full of vehement impulses, and not largely endowed with that safe quality called prudence, was a man likely to get ...

Photo by Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public Domain, Via Wikimedia Commons The notable writer was not just a significant figure in America’s literary history, but also has a local legacy in Mamaroneck.

In sum, James Fenimore Cooper provides much food for thought, not only his fictional portrayal of the development of America from wilderness to developed community, but in his later explicitly ...

Murals of famed novelist James Fenimore Cooper could be taken down or covered up due to a construction project at Mamaroneck High School.

The publication of these pages admits the reader intimately to the family circle. Volume II ends with Cooper’s journal for 1848, kept in a daily memorandum book.