Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): One work by this man describes a protagonist who was born on "neck of land" and who argues against a theory that a certain place name is a corruption of the word "Dibbleston," and that protagonist travels with Uncle Ro. This author of a work about Miles Wallingford penned a novel about Vulcan's Peak called The Crater and created a family including Cornelius, Hugh, and Mordaunt. A series containing The Redskins, The Chainbearer, and Satanstoe was his trilogy about the Anti-Rent Wars, the Littlepage Manuscripts. Alice Dunscombe is once again abandoned at the end of his story of the mysterious Mr. Gray, who is likely a disguised John Paul Jones. A sequence written by this man in which several bullets are shot through a painted nail without ever being examined is analyzed in a work that claims one of his novels "accomplishes nothing and arrives in air. " For 10 points, name this creator of such characters as Uncas, whose "literary offenses" were described by Mark Twain and who included The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer, and The Last of the Mohicans in his Leatherstocking Tales. 
Output (English): Literature