Kevin Caravaggio

Memoirs and Storybooks: Biographical Insights on the Inspirations of America's First Novelist Kevin Caravaggio

Scholarly Research Paper from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: High School Third Year, , course: 11th Grade English, language: English, comment: I wrote this research paper on the life and work of James Fenimore Cooper as an end-of-course project in my 11th grade American Literature class. This paper was evaluated by the Senior English Teacher at my school. She awarded it a mark of 97%. , abstract: While his popular character, Natty Bumppo, was blazing trails across the beautiful, native land of America, Cooper was blazing the trail for American literature. On September 15, 1789, James Cooper, son of the wealthy William Cooper, was born at Burlington, New Jersey. The boy grew up on the ancient, unturned soil of a new nation. As a young man, he was enlisted into the naval service by his father, thereby allowing Cooper to survey the world beyond America. When he later began writing, James Fenimore Cooper's literary efforts were shaped by various encounters of his lifetime.