Paul Fenimore Cooper was a traveler and author of children's books and non-fiction. He was educated at Taft School, at Yale

YALE

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  and at Trinity College, Cambridge

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. A great-grandson of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo...

 and great-great-grandson of the founder of Cooperstown, New York

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, Judge William Cooper

William Cooper (judge)

William Cooper was the founder of Cooperstown, New York and father of writer James Fenimore Cooper, who apparently used his father as the pattern for the Judge Marmaduke Temple character in his book The Pioneers....

, he was born in Albany, New York

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 and lived in Cooperstown, New York

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. 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 was also distantly related to Nebraska

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 State Representative Paul F. Clark

Paul F. Clark

-Biography:Clark was born Paul Fenimore Clark in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1861. His distant relatives included William Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper, and Paul Fenimore Cooper. Clark died on June 2, 1932 in San Jose, California.-Career:...

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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

King William Island

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, the Eskimo

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and the people who visited him; and Dindle (1964), a children's book about a dwarf who saves a kingdom from a dragon.