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A short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer, attorney, and columnist...Washington Irving has been called the "Father of the American Short Story". His best known for works The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, in which the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane meets with a headless horseman and Rip Van Winkle, about a man who falls asleep for 20 years. He wrote under the pseudonyms Dietrich Knickerbocker, Jonathan Oldstyle, and Geoffrey Crayon. He also was the co-author of The Gilded Age, with Mark Twain. |