The Last of the Mohicans was written in 1826 by James Fenimore Cooper. Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey. Born the son of a wealthy judge, his family moved to Cooperstown, New York, when he was only one year old. The city was named in honor of his father. Cooper grew up and received his early education in Cooperstown, where he was introduced to influential social circles. At the age of thirteen he was sent to study at Yale University. He was expelled from school for constant pranks, including putting a donkey on a professor's desk and setting off gunpowder on campus. After leaving Yale, he spent two years in the merchant marine before joining the U.S. Navy. While in the Navy, his father was killed by a political opponent, and Cooper inherited a large estate. In 1811 he married Susan DeLancey, daughter of a wealthy family, and left the Navy to establish himself as a gentleman. Cooper's business ventures were unsuccessful and he abandoned his country life, moving to New York City to become a writer. It is said that after reading a novel, he commented to his wife that he could do a better job, and she challenged him to do so, starting his writing career. Cooper's first novel, Precaution, written in 1820, was unsuccessful, but the following year Cooper rose to fame with The Spy, a historical romance novel about the American Revolution. He then wrote several marine adventure novels before writing Leather-Stocking Tales, a collection of five books, including The Last of the Mohicans, about the North American frontier. In 1826, Cooper left the United States and spent eight years in Europe where he continued his success and wrote novels about medieval Europe, democracy, and politics... middle of paper... which was a predominant social issue. in the early 1800s, played a central role in this novel. Cooper uses Hawkeye's friendship with Uncas and Chingachgook to suggest that people of different races can successfully interact and become friends. In contrast, Cora's attraction to Uncas was portrayed as taboo, showing social aversion to interracial marriage. Even among the Indians the animosity between the Mohicans and the Hurons shows a resistance to the mixing of different cultures. In writing The Last of the Mohicans, James Cooper successfully created a fictional novel by integrating both the historical facts of the novel's time period and current social problems. since the time of writing. The story was not intended to be entirely historically accurate, but it managed to give the reader a general idea of ​​the atmosphere of the times..