James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper (September 1789- September 1851) was a popular American writer of the early 19th century.
  His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days create a unique form of American literatura.
He´s  best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among his most famous works is the romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans (1826).
The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in a series of five adventure stories describing the life of early settlers in America.

James Fenimore Cooper