Last modified on May 11, 2007, at 14:14

Washington Irving

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Ed Poor (Talk | contribs) at 14:14, May 11, 2007. It may differ significantly from current revision.

Washington Irving (1783-1859) was a nineteenth century American diplomat [1] and fiction writer, best known for his story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the shorter Rip Van Winkle.

Notes

  1. ↑ He had been a competent secretary and chargé d'affaires of the American Legation in London from 1829 to 1832 and a skillful and shrewd Minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. (Austin McC. Fox, Introduction to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other selection from Washington Irving, Simon & Schuster, 1962)