Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection ''The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'' His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.Irving was born and raised in Manhattan to a merchant family. He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the ''Morning Chronicle'', written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. He temporarily moved to England for the family business in 1815, where he achieved fame with the publication of ''The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'' which was serialized from 1819 to 1820. He continued to publish regularly throughout his life, and he completed a five-volume biography of George Washington just eight months before his death at age 76 in Tarrytown, New York.
Irving was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and he encouraged other American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe. He was also admired by some British writers, including Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Francis Jeffrey, and Walter Scott. He advocated for writing as a legitimate profession and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement. Provided by Wikipedia
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Oliver Goldsmith : a Biography. by Irving, Washington
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A Book Of the Hudson Collected From the Various Works Of Diedrich Knickerbocker. Edited By Geoffrey Crayon [Pseud] by Irving, Washington
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A History Of New York, From the Beginning Of the World To the End Of the Dutch Dynasty . . . By Diedrich Knickerbocker [Pseud] by Irving, Washington
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A Chronicle Of the Conquest Of Granada By Fray Antonio Agapida [Pseud] by Irving, Washington
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Letters Of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. [Pseud] by Irving, Washington
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Bracebridge Hall Or, the Humorists. A Medley, By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [Pseud] by Irving, Washington
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The Beauties Of Washington Irving . . . by Irving, Washington
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The Alhambra: a Series Of Tales and Sketches Of the Moors and Spaniards . . . by Irving, Washington
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Tales Of a Traveller, Volume 4 By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [Pseud.] by Irving, Washington
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Tales Of a Traveller, Volume 3 By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [Pseud.] by Irving, Washington
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Tales Of a Traveller, Volume 2 By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [Pseud.] by Irving, Washington
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Tales Of a Traveller, Volume 1 By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [Pseud.] by Irving, Washington
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Works . . . by Irving, Washington
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Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers, Now First Collected ... by Irving, Washington
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The Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [Pseud] by Irving, Washington
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The Knickerbocker Sketch-Book L. G. Clark, Ed. by Irving, Washington
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The Devil and Tom Walker: Together With Deacon Grubb and the Old Nick by Irving, Washington
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The Crayon Miscellany by Irving, Washington
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Contributions to the Corrector. by Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
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Journal of Washington Irving, 1823-1824. by Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
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