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Frederic Taber Cooper

1864–1937

A scholar-turned-editor, he moved from teaching Latin and Sanskrit into a busy literary career in New York, writing criticism, essays, and books on storytelling. His life bridged the worlds of academia, journalism, and early 20th-century publishing.

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The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature

The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature

by Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Bartlett Maurice

About the author

Born in New York City on May 27, 1864, Frederic Taber Cooper studied at Harvard University and then Columbia, where he earned both a law degree and later advanced academic degrees. Although he was admitted to the New York bar in 1888, he soon left law behind and returned to scholarship.

Cooper taught Latin at Columbia and later served as an associate professor of Latin and Sanskrit at New York University from 1895 to 1902. After that, he turned more fully to literary work, editing periodicals including The New York Commercial Advertiser, The Forum, and briefly the New York Globe.

He was also a writer and critic, publishing works such as The Craftsmanship of Writing and Some American Story Tellers. In addition to his own books, he worked as a translator from Romance languages, bringing a wide range of European writing into English. He died in New London, Connecticut, on May 20, 1937.