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Lifetime: 1864 - 1937 Passed: ≈ 86 years ago

Title

Editor, Writer

Country/Nationality

United States
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Frederic Taber Cooper

Frederic Taber Cooper Ph.D. was an American editor and writer.

Cooper was born in New York City, graduated from Harvard University in 1886 and obtained an LL.B. from Columbia University in 1887.

On November 29, 1887, he married Edith Redfield in New York. Edith's father Amasa A. Redfield was a New York attorney and author.

In 1888, he was admitted to the New York Bar, but promptly abandoned the practice of law. Returning to Columbia, he obtained an A.M. in 1891, serving as an associate instructor of Latin until 1894. In 1895, Columbia awarded him a Ph.D. and he became an associate professor of Latin and Sanskrit at New York University until 1902.

Professor Cooper was the editor of various periodicals, including The New York Commercial Advertiser (1898-1904), The Forum (1907-1909), and for a short time of the New York Globe. He died in New London, Connecticut, shortly after returning from a trip to Europe on May 20, 1937.

The Ravi D. Goel collection of Frederic Taber Cooper was donated to Yale's Beinecke Library in 2018. The summary states, "The collection consists of correspondence and other papers relating to American editor and author Frederic Taber Cooper. Correspondence includes letters to Cooper from authors, literary scholars, and publishers. Correspondents include: Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Paul Hervey Fox, Coulson Kernahan, Walter Learned, George Barr McCutcheon, Florence Guy Seabury, Louise Morgan Sill, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox, as well as publishers D. Appleton and Company and Henry Holt and Company. Other papers include clippings, legal and financial records, notebooks, printed material, and a small number of writings by others. Writings include a draft fragment, leaf numbered 117, manuscript, corrected, possibly of the novel The octopus (New York: Doubleday, 1901) by Frank Norris."

Books by Frederic Taber Cooper

Some American Storytellers Cover image

Some American Storytellers

Non-Fiction Biography
Ancient Literary Criticism America Aims United States

Frederic Taber Cooper, who was an editor and author, provides a superb insight into the works of some of the most popular authors of the turn of the century decade. Excerpt: The subjects of the essays included in this volume differ widely in aim and...