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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by Irving, Pierre Munroe, 1803-1876
Published 1967
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“...Irving, Washington, 1783-1859...”Published 1967
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by Hellman, George Sidney, 1878-1958
Published 1925
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by Bailey, Isaac, 1788-1824
Published 1815
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by Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Published 1834
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by Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
Published 1832
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by Hellman, George S. (George Sidney), 1878-1958
Published 1925
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by De Vries, T. (Tiemen), 1865-1936
Published 1912
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by Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905
Published 1969
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by Kerr, Walter, 1913-1996
Published 1937
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by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
Published 1907
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by Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946
Published 1897
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