The Life of Washington V3 - Irving, Washington
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1855. Washington Irving was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and is considered to be the Father of the American Short Story. A biography of the life of George Washington written during his last years, which were spent in Tarrytown, N.Y. See other Irving titles available from Kessinger Publishing. Vol. 1 ISBN 0766185222, Vol. 2 ISBN 0766185230, Vol. 4 ISBN 0766185257.

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1855. Washington Irving was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and is considered to be the Father of the American Short Story. A biography of the life of George Washington written during his last years, which were spent in Tarrytown, N.Y. See other Irving titles available from Kessinger Publishing. Vol. 1 ISBN 0766185222, Vol. 2 ISBN 0766185230, Vol. 4 ISBN 0766185257.
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Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat who lived from April 3, 1783, to November 28, 1859. Rip Van Winkle (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which are found in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, are two of his best-known short stories. His historical writings include biographies of George Washington, Muhammad, and Oliver Goldsmith in addition to various histories of Spain in the fifteenth century that cover topics like the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. In the 1840s, Irving represented America as ambassador to Spain. Irving made his literary debut in 1802 with a collection of observant letters to the Morning Chronicle, penned under the alias Jonathan Oldstyle. Irving was born and raised in Manhattan to a family of merchants. He temporarily relocated to England in 1815 for the family business, and it was there that he shot to popularity with the 1819-1820 serial publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. He continued to publish often throughout his life, and eight months before his passing in Tarrytown, New York, at age 76, he finished a five-volume biography of George Washington.