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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.


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Author Bio


  • NameCarl Clinton Van Doren
  • DescriptionAmerican biographer
  • BornSeptember 10, 1885
  • DiedJuly 18, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Literary Critic
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Biography Or Autobiography