The Princess Bride by William Goldman: “"Cooper maybe," she'd say, so off I went into The Deerslayer and all the Leatherstocking stuff, and then on my own one day I stumbled onto Dumas and D'Artagnan.”
A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov: “...for many a long evening I paced up and down the length of my study, longing for newspapers with the same hunger that in childhood I had longed for Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer.”