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May 24, 2017 · Washington Irving was America’s first author-celebrity—one moccasined step ahead of James Fenimore Cooper, who gained fame for his Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontier rifleman Natty Bumppo, his Indian foster brother, Chingachgook, and foster nephew Uncas, the “last of the Mohicans.” By the time Cooper first forayed into the literary frontier in 1823, Irving had already introduced readers to the Hudson Valley Dutch in his short stories “Rip Van Winkle” (1819) and “The ...
by. Washington Irving, Scott McKowen (Illustrations), William L. Hedges, Geoffrey Crayon (Pseudonym) 3.92 avg rating — 56,260 ratings — published 1819 — 1210 editions. Want to Read. saving….
Washington Irving was the first American author to achieve international fame, thanks to his timeless works such as "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Irving was a close friend of author Edgar Allan Poe and the two shared a mutual admiration for each other's work, despite their different writing styles.
Washington Irving was an American writer. He was born in New York City on April 3, 1783. He began his literary career writing humorous newspaper sketches. He edited magazines. He went to Europe on family matters as a young man. He remained there for 17 years.
Oct 24, 2020 · Washington Irving's Headless Horseman Of Sleepy Hollow Turns 200 NPR's Scott Simon talks to historian Elizabeth Bradley about the 200th anniversary of the publication of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
May 1, 2021 · Thanks, Washington Irving!) Knickerbocker is, if not an unreliable narrator, an imperfect one: he is not omniscient, and freely admits the limits of his knowledge about the events of the story. In a Postscript, Knickerbocker claims he heard the story of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ from someone else, who himself didn’t believe half of it.
Washington Irving(1783 - 1859) (Also wrote under the pseudonyms Fray Antonio Agapida, Geoffrey Crayon, Diedrich Knickerbocker, Launcelot Langstaff, and Jonathan Oldstyle) American short story writer, essayist, historian, journalist, and biographer. Irving is considered both the first American man of letters and the creator of the American short ...
