My Birthday Hero (30/3/12)

On September 15th, I share the same birthday with famed historian cum novelist James Fenimore Cooper. He 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,Among his most famous works is the romantic novel The Last Of The Mohicans often regarded as his masterpiece. Cooper was one of the most popular 19th-century American authors, and his work was admired greatly throughout the world. While on his death bed, the Austrian composer Franz Schubert wanted most to read more of Cooper's novels. Honere De Blaze, the French novelist and playwright, admired him greatly Cooper's stories have been translated into nearly all the languages of Europe and into some of those of Asia. When someone mentions the word hero, I think of someone who has done an great act of justice, but honestly, I don't really feel that a novelist and historian would be fit the description of a hero, although he has wrote many famous books, he hasn't really done anything to brand him as a hero, so James Fenimore Cooper is a renowned novelist and historian which I admire that I share a birthday with, he's not considered a hero in my viewpoint