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Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper ( April 17, 1813 – December 31, 1894 ) was an American writer and amateur naturalist.

She was born in Scarsdale, New York, the daughter of the well known novelist James Fenimore Cooper.

She was his second child, and the eldest to survive her youth.

During the later years of her father's life, she became his secretary and amanuensis, and but for her father's prohibition would naturally have become his biographer.