# Conan Doyle, Fennimore Cooper, & Clark Russell

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fennimore-cooper-clark-russell/777371>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 17, 2017, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fennimore-cooper-clark-russell/777371 "2017-01-17T05:39:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fennimore-cooper-clark-russell/777371/21 "2017-01-20T00:04:23Z")

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> [@Trinopus](#):
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> […] James Fennimore Cooper is sometimes just called Fennimore Cooper […]

Either option is better than what Mark Twain called him 🙂

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fennimore-cooper-clark-russell/777371/22 "2017-01-20T01:26:07Z")

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> [@Xema](#):
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> More common by far is Fenimore Cooper.

Thankee kindly.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fennimore-cooper-clark-russell/777371/23 "2017-01-20T12:34:42Z")

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I thought of another example. **Frank Gelett Burgess** , author of the poem _The Purple Cow_, and a great many other things. Most sources give his name as Gelett Burgess. I didn’t know that Gelett wasn’t his first name for years.

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