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Name: John Esten Cooke
Birth Date: November 3, 1830
Death Date: September 27, 1886
Place of Birth: Winchester, Virginia, United States
Place of Death: Virginia, United States, His farm, the Briars, in the Shenandoah Valley
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of John Esten Cooke
6,247 words, approx. 21 pages
John Esten Cooke is usually thought of as a writer who ended one literary tradition and initiated another. Beginning his career as an imitator of James Fenimore Cooper and an author of pre-Revolutionary War fiction, Cooke became known, after serving...
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As a novelist and chronicler of Virginia history, John Esten Cooke was considered a major author in the South immediately before and following the Civil War. Although he was trained as a lawyer, Cooke devoted almost all of his energies to being a...


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John Esten Cooke Information
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John Esten Cooke (1830 – 1886) was an American novelist, born in the Commonwealth of Virginia and noted for writing about that state. He illustrated Virginia life and history in the novels, The Virginia Comedians (1854), and The Wearing of the...


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The Historian
A romantic's Civil War: John Esten Cooke, Stonewall Jackson, and the ideal of individual "genius".(Critical essay)
09/22/2005: 8,981 words, approx. 30 pages
IN 1996, the Civil War novel Gods and Generals was a bestseller. The book portrayed Confederate General Stonewall Jackson as a man full of peculiarities, from his plain uniform to his alleged penchant for habitually sucking on lemons in the midst of battle. The...
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Florida Bar News
John R. Cook.
02/15/2000: 379 words, approx. 1 pages
Okeechobee Nineteenth Judicial Circuit John R. Cook was born September 15, 1951. He married Jayne Cook in 1974, and has four children: Matthew age 21; Robert, age 18; Abigail, age 16; and Elliott age 14. He is a graduate of Cumberland...
 


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