Paul Fenimore Cooper

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Paul Fenimore Cooper
Born	1899 Albany, New York
Died	January 20, 1970 (aged 70) Cooperstown, New York
Occupation	Novelist
Genres	Children's Literature, Folklore, Non Fiction
Notable work(s)	Tal: His Marvelous Adventures With Noom Zor Noom

Influences Fridtjof Nansen Robert Peary Roald Amundsen

Paul Fenimore Cooper (1899-January 20, 1970) was a traveler and author of children's books and non-fiction. He was educated at Taft School, at Yale and at Trinity College, Cambridge. A great-grandson of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper and great-great-grandson of the founder of Cooperstown, New York, Judge William Cooper, he was born in Albany, New York and lived in Cooperstown, New York. He was married to Marion Erskine Cooper. Their son, Paul Fenimore Cooper, Jr. was a physicist and Arctic explorer and was elected a Fellow of the 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 an extraordinary trek to the land of Troom; "Island of the Lost" (1961), a non-fiction account of the Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin ensconced in a biography of King William Island, the Eskimo and the people who visited him; and "Dindle" (1964), a children's book about a dwarf who saves a kingdom from a dragon.