FREE: US MINT NH SCOTT# 860 James Fennimore Cooper Date Issued: 1940-01-29 Postage Value: 2 cents

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US MINT NH SCOTT# 860
James Fennimore Cooper
Date Issued: 1940-01-29
Postage Value: 2 cents

Commemorative issue
Famous Americans-Authors
James Fennimore Cooper
A member of the Knickerbocker Group, James Fenimore Cooper was considered the most important U.S. novelist before Nathaniel Hawthorne. His Leatherstocking Tales is considered a classic. Cooper invented the modern sea novel. His novels normally are classified into six major groups: historical romances, wilderness novels, sea novels, novels with European settings, socio -political novels, and Littlepage Manuscripts. His non-fiction writing, not received anywhere nearly as well as his fiction, included travels books, a history of the U.S. Navy, and social criticism.

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