FTP, identify this American author of such novels as The Deerslayer, The Pioneer, and Last of the Mohicans.
He was expelled from Yale for training a donkey to sit in a professor's chair. He defended the existence of a landed gentry in his 1845 antirent trilogy The Littlepage Manuscripts. He wrote the first American novel of the sea, 1823's The Pilot, though his first novel, Precaution, was a distinct failure. He is most famous for another literary creation that sported such characters as Uncas and Chingachgook. FTP, identify this American author of such novels as The Deerslayer, The Pioneer, and Last of the Mohicans.
He was expelled from Yale for training a donkey to sit in a professor's chair.
James Fenimore {Cooper}