He turned to writing to recoup financial losses, likely due to his own poor management.Īfter a poor showing in Precaution (1820), a novel of manners, Cooper found his stride in The Spy (1821), a historical novel set during the American Revolution. He left the Navy in 1808 and married Susan Augusta de Lancey-daughter of a wealthy Westchester family- three years later. After William’s death, Cooper inherited part of his father’s large fortune. William Cooper was a judge and member of Congress who, after Fenimore Cooper was expelled from Yale for misconduct (perhaps a brawl), would obtain a position for him in the United States Navy.
\): James Fenimore CooperĬooper was born into a well-to-do family, growing up in Cooperstown, a frontier village on the southern shore of Ostego Lake developed by his father William Cooper (1754–1809).
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