The Crayon Papers
Washington Irving
- Washington
- Irving
- (April
- 3,
- 1783
- -
- November
- 28,
- 1859)
- was
- an
- American
- author
- of
- the
- early
- 19th
- century.
- Best
- known
- for
- his
- short
- stories
- The
- Legend
- of
- Sleepy
- Hollow
- and
- Rip
- van
- Winkle
- (both
- of
- which
- appear
- in
- his
- book
- The
- Sketch
- Book
- of
- Geoffrey
- Crayon),
- he
- was
- also
- a
- prolific
- essayist,
- biographer
- and
- historian.
- Irving
- and
- James
- Fenimore
- Cooper
- were
- the
- first
- American
- writers
- to
- earn
- acclaim
- in
- Europe,
- and
- Irving
- is
- said
- to
- have
- encouraged
- authors
- such
- as
- Nathaniel
- Hawthorne,
- Henry
- Wadsworth
- Longfellow,
- and
- Edgar
- Allan
- Poe.
- Irving
- was
- also
- the
- U.S.
- minister
- to
- Spain 1842-1846.
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