American Literature Portfolio
Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel
The Last of the Mohicans, which many consider to be his masterpiece.
Further information: List of James Fenimore Cooper writings.
He anonymously published his first book, Precaution (1820). He soon issued several others
under his own name. In 1823, he published The Pioneers; this was the first of the
Leatherstocking series, featuring Natty Bumppo, the resourceful American woodsman at
home with the Delaware Indians and especially their chief Chingachgook. Cooper's most
famous novel, Last of the Mohicans (1826), became one of the most widely read American
novels of the nineteenth century. The book was written in a second-story storefront-apartment
in Warrensburg, New York, just north of where most of the book's plot takes place.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was born in New York City (near present-day Wall Street) at the end of
the Revolutionary War on April 3, 1783. His parents, Scottish-English immigrants, were
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