John Esten Cooke was an American novelist, writer and poet. He was the brother of poet Philip Pendleton Cooke. During the American Civil War, Cooke was a staff officer for Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart in the Confederate States Army cavalry and, after Stuart's death, for Brig. Gen. William N. Pendleton. Stuart's wife, Flora, was a first cousin of Cooke.
- Occupation
- novelist, biographer, writer, historian
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 3, 1830, 1830
- Died
- September 27, 1886, 1886
