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Cooper the first representative American novelist
James Fennimore Cooper is celebrated as America's first representative novelist. The Cooperstown items in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library include manuscripts from Leatherstocking Tales, diaries, letters to Scott and Washington Irving, and a marble bust. Cooper, born 1789 in Burlington New Jersey, later moved to Cooperstown, wrote The Spy and The Pioneers, with enduring praise from European readers and Thackeray.
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John Dickinson Sherman
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James Fennimore Cooper
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Sir Walter Scott
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