"experienced Welsh TV actor who often played villains, and Richard Warwick as Uncas. In a contemporary review in ""The New York Times"" John J. O'Connor criticized the ""natural handicap of vocal accents"" of British actors portraying Native Americans. He summarized; ""The over‐all production, complete with forest battles and canoe joustings, is excellent. The color photography is first‐rate. And most of the performances, in the B.B.C. tradition, are superb."" The Last of the Mohicans (TV series) The Last of the Mohicans is a 1971 BBC serial, based on the novel of the same name by James Fenimore Cooper, directed by David"
"based on Cooper's novels. In the BBC miniseries ""The Last of the Mohicans"" and ""The Pathfinder"", Chingachgook was played by John Abineri. Chingachgook was played by Ned Romero in the TV versions of ""The Last of the Mohicans"" (1977) and ""The Deerslayer"" (1978), by Russell Means in the 1992 film adaptation of ""The Last of the Mohicans"", by Rodney A. Grant in the 1994 TV series ""Hawkeye"" and by Graham Greene in the 1996 TV version of ""The Pathfinder"". Many films portray Chingachgook with long hair, braided or flowing. A notable exception is the 1920 adaptation which faithfully represents him"
"American literature. Cooper is best remembered for his numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the ""Leatherstocking Tales"", with their emphasis on heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape descriptions of an already-exotic mythicized frontier peopled by ""noble savages"", exemplified by Uncas, from ""The Last of the Mohicans"" (1826) show the influence of Rousseau's (1712–78) philosophy. Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabre that first appeared in the early 1830s, and his balladic poetry were more influential in France than at home. By the mid-19th century, the pre-eminence of literature from the British Isles began to be challenged by writers"
"Diane Chamberlain Diane Chamberlain is an American author of adult fiction. Diane Chamberlain is the New York Times, USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of 30 novels published in more than twenty languages. Some of her most popular books include Necessary Lies, The Silent Sister, The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes, and The Keeper of the Light Trilogy. Diane likes to write complex stories about relationships between men and women, parents and children, brothers and sisters, and friends. Although the thematic focus of her books often revolves around family, love, compassion and forgiveness, her stories usually feature a combination"
"His most famous novel is """" (1826), the second book of the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" pentalogy. ""The Last of the Mohicans"" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is perhaps the most famous 19th-century American historical novel. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. In French"
"James A. Michener James Albert Michener (; February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 books, most of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history. Michener had numerous bestsellers and works selected for Book of the Month Club, and was known for his meticulous research behind the books. Michener's novels include ""Tales of the South Pacific"" for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948, ""Hawaii"", ""The Drifters"", ""Centennial"", ""The Source"", ""The Fires of Spring"", ""Chesapeake"", ""Caribbean"", ""Caravans"","
"events in Natty Bumppo's life from 1740 to 1806. Before his appearance in ""The Deerslayer,"" Bumppo went by the aliases ""Straight-Tongue,” ""The Pigeon,” and the ""Lap-Ear.” After obtaining his first rifle, he gained the sobriquet ""Deerslayer."" He is subsequently known as ""Hawkeye"" and """"La Longue Carabine"""" in ""The Last of the Mohicans"", as ""Pathfinder"" in ""The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea"", as ""Leatherstocking"" (from which the series' title is drawn) in ""The Pioneers"", and as ""the trapper"" in ""The Prairie"". Bumppo has been portrayed most often in adaptions of ""The Last of the Mohicans"". He was portrayed by Harry Lorraine"
"from Natty Bumppo to Nathaniel Poe. Adaptions of ""The Deerslayer"" have seen Bumppo played by Emil Mamelok in the 1920 film ""The Deerslayer and Chingachgook"", by Bruce Kellogg in the 1943 film, by Lex Barker in the 1957 film, and by Steve Forrest in the 1978 TV movie. Adaptions of ""The Pathfinder"" have seen Bumppo played by Paul Massie in the 1973 5-part BBC mini-series and Kevin Dillon in the 1996 TV movie. Additionally he was portrayed by George Montgomery in the 1950 movie ""The Iroquois Trail"", by John Hart in the 1957 TV series ""Hawkeye and the Last of"
"Pathfinder"" a masterpiece and professed great admiration for Cooper's portrayal of nature, only equalled in his view by Walter Scott. Mark Twain famously criticized ""The Deerslayer"" and ""The Pathfinder"" in his satirical but shrewdly observant essay, ""Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"" (1895), which portrays Cooper's writing as clichéd and overwrought. Cooper was also criticized heavily for his depiction of women characters in his work. James Russell Lowell, Cooper's contemporary and a critic, referred to it poetically in ""A Fable for Critics"", writing, ""... the women he draws from one model don't vary / All sappy as maples and flat as a"
"James K. Morrow James Morrow (born March 17, 1947) is an American novelist and short-story writer known for filtering large philosophical and theological questions through his satiric sensibility. Most of Morrow’s oeuvre has been published as science fiction and fantasy, but he is also the author of two unconventional historical novels, ""The Last Witchfinder"" and ""Galápagos Regained"". He variously describes himself as a ""scientific humanist,"" a ""bewildered pilgrim,"" and a ""child of the Enlightenment."" Morrow presently lives in State College, Pennsylvania with his second wife, Kathryn Smith Morrow, his son Christopher, and his two dogs. James Kenneth Morrow was born"
"was virulent in its comments about him, and Cooper filed legal actions for libel, winning all his lawsuits. After concluding his last case in court, Cooper returned to writing with more energy and success than he'd had for several years. On May 10, 1839, he published his ""History of the U.S. Navy"", and returned to the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" series with ""The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea"" (1840) and ""The Deerslayer"" (1841) and other novels. He wrote again on maritime themes, including ""Ned Myers, or A Life Before the Mast"", which is of particular interest to naval historians. In the late"
"Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He wrote more than one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. His 1988 novel ""Fallen Angels"" is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. because of its adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War. Myers was the third U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving in 2012 and 2013. He"
"(1950) and ""The Decoy"" (1951). Edward S. Aarons Edward Sidney Aarons (1916 – June 16, 1975) was an American writer who authored more than 80 novels from 1936 until 1975. One of these was under the pseudonym ""Paul Ayres"" (Dead Heat), and 30 were written using the name ""Edward Ronns"". He also wrote numerous stories for detective magazines such as ""Detective Story Magazine"" and ""Scarab"". Among other works of fiction, Aarons is known for his spy thrillers, particularly his ""Assignment"" series, which are set all over the world and have been translated into 17 languages. The 42 novels in this"
"Edward S. Ellis Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine. Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles that he produced by his name and by a number of ""noms de plume"". Notable fiction stories by Ellis include ""The Steam Man of the Prairies"" and ""Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier"". Internationally, Edward S. Ellis is probably known best for his ""Deerfoot"" novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s."
"Henry Miller Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association, and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are ""Tropic of Cancer"", ""Black Spring"", ""Tropic of Capricorn"" and ""The Rosy Crucifixion"" trilogy, which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris (all of which were banned in the United States until 1961). He also wrote travel memoirs"
"wife, Margaret, in Orange City, Florida, where he died on Friday, July 25, 2008. Don Callander Donald Bruce Callander (1930–2008) was an American fantasy novel author, photographer, editor and graphic artist. He authored ""Pyromancer"", a tale of young wizard-in-training Douglas Brightglade, and fourteen other novels. Born in Minnesota, Callander joined the U.S. Navy after high school, serving four years of active duty during the Korean War, and then 20 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve. In 1952, Callander married Mary Lee Omohundro and moved to Washington, D.C., where he began a 30-year career as a writer, photographer, editor and graphic"
"Leatherstocking Tales The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, set in the eighteenth century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York. Each novel features Natty Bumppo, a frontiersman known to European-American settlers as ""Leatherstocking"", ""The Pathfinder"", and ""the trapper"". Native Americans call him ""Deerslayer"", """"La Longue Carabine"""" (""Long Rifle"" in French), and ""Hawkeye"". The story dates are derived from dates given in the tales and span the period roughly of 1740-1806. They do not necessarily correspond with the actual dates of the historical events described in"
"Trail: G. Clifton Wisler G. Clifton Wisler (1950-2006) was an American historical novelist, the author of almost 70 books, many of them historical fiction for young adults. Wisler lived in Plano, Texas in the United States. He died on April 7, 2006. Wisler's work, most of which had appeared only in mass-market paperback form, can be divided into several distinct categories: historical fiction for young adults (distinguished in the following list as YA), mostly concerned with early Texas history or the Civil War; mainstream Westerns, particularly the Delamer series; Westerns told from an Indian viewpoint (NA); and science fiction. The"
"The Paths of the Perambulator The Paths of the Perambulator (1985) is a fantasy novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the continuing adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the fifth book in the Spellsinger series. The strange world Jon-Tom has found himself trapped in takes a turn for the decidedly weird as Foster’s fantasy series take a page from Kafka's ""The Metamorphosis"" when the Spellsinger wakes up one morning as a giant crab. The cause, as determined by the turtle wizard"
"is told from multiple viewpoints, and incorporates detailed historical vignettes triggered by historic objects discovered by the contemporary protagonists. Robert Buettner Robert Buettner is an American author of military science fiction novels. He is a former Military Intelligence Officer, National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology and has been published in the field of Natural Resources Law. He has written five volumes of the ""Jason Wander"" series, three volumes of the ""Orphan's Legacy"" series, the stand-alone novel ""The Golden Gate"", numerous short stories and novellas, and the afterword to an anthology of stories by the late Robert Heinlein. Buettner currently lives"
"their fears with love. In many cases the couple must face a level of personal danger, and, upon surmounting their troubles, are able to forge a strong relationship for the future. Fenimore Cooper is a noted nineteenth century writer of literary fiction romances that are set on the American frontier. Cooper's best-known works are five ""Leatherstocking Tales"". Among the most famous of these works is ""The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of"" 1757 (1826), often regarded as his masterpiece. Guy Vanderhaeghe (1951 – ) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novels trilogy,"
"Marion Mainwaring Marion Jessie Mainwaring (April 21, 1922 – December 12, 2015) was an American writer, translator, and critic. Mainwaring is best known as the author who completed Edith Wharton's novel ""The Buccaneers"", published in 1993. She earlier assisted R. W. B. Lewis in researching his Pulitzer- and Bancroft-prize-winning 1976 biography of Wharton. A novelist in her own right, she wrote the novels ""Murder in Pastiche: or Nine Detectives All at Sea"" (1954), parodying nine famous fictional detectives, and ""Murder at Midyears"" (1953), based on her experiences in teaching at Mount Holyoke College. She translated ""Youth and Age: Three Novellas"""
"Brad Thor Bradley George Thor Jr. (born August 21, 1969) is an American thriller novelist, and putative Republican presidential candidate challenging Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election. He is the author of ""The Lions of Lucerne"", ""The First Commandment"", ""The Last Patriot"", and other novels. His latest novel in the Harvath series, ""Spymaster"", was released in June 2018. Thor's novels have been published in countries around the world. He also contributed a short story entitled ""The Athens Solution"" to the James Patterson-edited anthology, ""Thriller"". Thor also makes frequent appearances on Fox News and The Blaze. ""The Last"
"Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers • The Writers Directory Jon Manchip White Jon Ewbank Manchip White (23 June 1924 – July 31, 2013) was the Welsh American author of more than thirty books of non-fiction and fiction, including ""The Last Race"", ""Nightclimber"", ""Death By Dreaming"", ""Solo Goya"", and his final novel, ""Rawlins White: Patriot to Heaven"", published in 2011. White was also the author of a number of plays, teleplays, screenplays and volumes of short stories and poetry. White was born in 1924 in Cardiff, Wales, to shipping company owner Gwilym Manchip White. When White was young his father"
"Lois McMaster Bujold Lois McMaster Bujold ( ; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record, not counting his Retro Hugo. Her novella ""The Mountains of Mourning"" won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, ""The Curse of Chalion"" won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award"
"was inspired by a tale related to him by neighbor and family friend John Jay. It was more successful and became a bestseller; the setting of this Revolutionary War tale is widely believed to have been John Jay's family home ""The Locusts"" in Rye, New York. In 1823, Cooper published ""The Pioneers"", the first of the ""Leatherstocking"" series. The series features Natty Bumppo, a resourceful American woodsman at home with the Delaware Indians and their chief Chingachgook. Bumppo was also the main character of Cooper's most famous novel ""The Last of the Mohicans"" (1826), written in New York City where"
"of English at The George Washington University. Thomas Mallon Thomas Mallon (born November 2, 1951) is an American novelist, essayist, and critic. His novels are renowned for their attention to historical detail and context and for the author's crisp wit and interest in the ""bystanders"" to larger historical events. He is the author of nine books of fiction, including ""Henry and Clara"", ""Two Moons"", ""Dewey Defeats Truman"", ""Aurora 7"", ""Bandbox"", ""Fellow Travelers"", ""Watergate"", and most recently ""Finale"". He has also published nonfiction on plagiarism (""Stolen Words""), diaries (""A Book of One's Own""), letters (""Yours Ever"") and the Kennedy assassination (""Mrs."
"acknowledgments at the end of the book, Card tells of a small part of the writing process. Unlike his other books, he wrote the chapters far apart and needed more help from his continuity editors than normal. Pathfinder (novel) Pathfinder (2010) is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card, known for his novel, ""Ender's Game"". This novel tells the story of Rigg, and his unusual ability to perceive the ""paths"" of living things throughout time. It is the first book in the ongoing Pathfinder series, and is followed by ""Ruins"" and Visitors. People from Earth have colonized"
"(HarperCollins Publishers) unless noted otherwise. Some of these appear in multiples because they happen in the same universe. Includes the entire MacAllister's Series. Sherrilyn Kenyon has received numerous nominations and awards both under her real name and as Kinley MacGregor. Sherrilyn Kenyon Sherrilyn Kenyon (born 1965 in Columbus, Georgia, USA) is a bestselling US writer. Under her own name, she writes both urban fantasy and paranormal romance. She is best known for her Dark Hunter series. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she wrote historicals also with paranormal elements. Kenyon's novels have an ""international following"" with over 70 million copies in"
"Barry Gifford Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers. Gifford is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two star-crossed protagonists on a perpetual road trip. Published in seven novels between 1990 and 2015, the Sailor and Lula series is described by professor Andrei Codrescu as written in ""a great comic realist"" style that explores ""an unmistakably American universe [...] populated by a huge and lovable humanity propelled on a tragic river"
"died at Deer Island on August 14, 1921. Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (April 3, 1835 – August 14, 1921) was an American writer of novels, poems and detective stories. One of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, poems, novels, literary criticism, biographies, and memoirs. She also wrote articles on household decorative art and travel as well as children's literature. Harriet Elizabeth Prescott was born in Calais, Maine, on April 3, 1835, the eldest daughter of Joseph N. Prescott and Sarah"
"of the marriage. Matthiessen was diagnosed with leukemia in late 2012. He died at his home in Sagaponack on April 5, 2014, aged 86. Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine ""The Paris Review"", he was the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both fiction and nonfiction. He was also a prominent environmental activist. Matthiessen's nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably ""The Snow Leopard"" (1978) and American Indian issues and history, such as a"
"for extensive research and her unique style, lacking personal interpretations make her books unbiased and purely fact based. In her lifetime Mossiker produced five novels. Frances Mossiker Frances Sanger Mossiker (April 9, 1906 – May 9, 1985) was an American author best known for her historical novels. Her works include ""Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend"", ""The Queen's Necklace"", and ""Madame de Sevigne"". Mossiker did not begin writing until the age of fifty five and is one of the few writers to become a best seller in North America as well as in Europe. Frances Mossiker was born in Dallas,"