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Washington Irving
Oscar Wilde
Bram Stoker
H.G. Wells
Arthur Conan Doyle
E.T.A. Hoffman
Rudyard Kipling
Franz Kafka
H.P. Lovecraft
Edgar Allan Poe
Guy de Maupassant
Virginia Woolf
Mark Twain
Jack London
Henry James
Elizabeth Gaskell
Charlotte Perkins
Herman Melville
Katherine Mansfield
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert E. Howard
G. K. Chesterton
Edgar Wallace
Arthur Manchen
Ambrose Bierce
Talbot Mundy
Abraham Merritt
Zane Grey
Edgar Rice Burroughs
James Joyce
Leo Tolstoy
Nikolai Gogol
Anton Chekhov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Maxim Gorky
Leonid Andreyev
Ivan Turgenev
Joseph Conrad
Aleksander Pushkin
Charles Dickens
Hans Christian Andersen
Louisa May Alcott
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Laura E. Richards
Kate Chopin
Susan Glaspell
Stephen Crane
Edith Wharton
F. Scott Fitzgerald
About the Publisher
Washington Irving
AMERICAN AUTHOR, ESSAYIST, biographer, historian, and diplomat, Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783. He is best known for his short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollowand Rip Van Winkle, both published in his book, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, as seven paper-bound installments between June 23, 1819 and September 13, 1820.
Irving made his literary debut in 1802, publishing a collection of observational letters under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. He moved to England in 1815 and gained international acclaim with the success of The Sketchbook fo Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Irving was among the first American writers to earn fame in Europe, along with James Fenimore Cooper. Authors Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville were among the distinguished authors who benefited from Irving's encouragement.
Irving died of a heart attack in 1859, eight months after completing his significant biographical series on George Washington. Appropriately enough, Irving was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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