Background
Paul Fenimore Cooper was born in Albany, New York in 1899, the son of James Fenimore Cooper (1858–1938) and Susan Linn (Sage) Cooper (1866–1933).
Paul Fenimore Cooper was born in Albany, New York in 1899, the son of James Fenimore Cooper (1858–1938) and Susan Linn (Sage) Cooper (1866–1933).
Trinity College.
His first book was a translation of Albanian folk tales. Her brother Henry M. Sage (1868–1933) became a state senator Cooper was also distantly related to Nebraska State Representative Paul F. Clark.
Cooper grew up in Cooperstown.
He was educated at the private Taft School, at Yale College and at Trinity College, Cambridge. At Yale, he was an editor of campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
Their son Paul Fenimore Cooper Junior. became a physicist and Arctic explorer. He was elected a Fellow of the Arctic Society in 1954.
Cooper"s books included Tricks of Women and Other Albanian Tales (1928), a translation of folk tales.
Tal: His Marvelous Adventures with Noom-Zor-Noom (1929), a children"s book about an orphan and the fantastical adventures he encounters on a quest to the land of Troom. Island of the Lost (1961), a non-fiction account of the Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin, told within a biography of King William Island, the noted Eskimo. And Dindle (1964), a children"s book about a dwarf who saves a kingdom from a dragon.
Tal has had enduring popularity.
lieutenant was reprinted in new editions in 1957 and 2001.