IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren
   
Carl Clinton Van Doren   Name:
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Type:
Critic
Nationality:
American
Birth:
September 10, 1885
Death:
July 18, 1950
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