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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.

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Carl Clinton Van Doren
Age: 64 †
Born: 1885
Born: September 10
Died: 1950
Died: July 18
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