he was rather unpopular due to his works Notions of the Americans and Letter to General Lafayette, which he had written while living in Europe. He left New York City because of this unpopularity, and went to live in Cooperstown, New York, the settlement founded by his father. Cooper died at Cooperstown on September 14, 1851, one day before his sixty-second birthday. Cooper was, and continues to be, an immensely popular writer, and he is generally considered to be the first major American novelist....
