Reading long novels never gets old. James Fenimore Cooper's life moving to Otsego Lake and the fact that his father was a writer add to the stories he wrote. James' early life led him to write, which then led him to write some of the betting books of his era and for these reasons many people have analyzed his work. James Fenimore Cooper lived a great life. James Fenimore was born on September 15, 1789, in Burlington, New Jersey, to William and Elizabeth Cooper (Heller), political writers. In 1790, when James was thirteen months old, his family moved to the wilderness of the south shore of Otsego Lake in northern New York (Rosenblum). Cooper attended the local academy in Cooperstown, and then was sent to a preparatory school in Albany (Charles). After preparatory school, thirteen-year-old Cooper entered Yale, where he studied for two years before being expelled for knocking down a classmate's (Rosenblum) door. After being expelled, in 1804 he was put on board the ship The Stirling, on which he experienced adventures that eventually became his nautical novels (Rosenblum). After being on the Stirling he joined the navy and served on Lake Ontario. Then, in 1811, he married his sweetheart Susan Auguste DeLency (Heller). Mr. Cooper and his family moved to Paris where he sold his books and then returned to America in 1833 (Charles). When he returned from Europe, he settled in Cooperstown where he wrote sixteen more novels and found his religious beliefs Episcopalian (Heller). Mr. Cooper died in Cooperstown just one day before his 61st birthday, September 14, 1851 (Higgins). Cooper has written long books of fiction and also nonfiction. Although novels were Cooper's best, he also attempted to write short stories, biographies, and a play (...... middle of paper ...... eowl.org>Higgins, Peter J. "James Fenimore Cooper ." Cyclopedia Of World Authors, fourth revised edition (2003): 1-2. Literary Reference Center Plus Web, 14 April 2014. "James Fenimore Cooper." Reference Center Plus Web. 29 April 2014. Kincheloe, Henderson. "L 'Last of the Mohicans', fourth edition (2010): 1-4. Literary Reference Center Plus 18 May 2014, The.' London Magazine. May 1826, Rpt in Nineteenth-CenturyLiterature Criticism Vol 1. Ed. Laurie Lanzen Gale Research, 193-229. Rosenblum, Joseph "James Fenimore Cooper: The 19th Century (2000): 1-4. Literary Reference Center Plus. April 14. 2014.