Biography
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 β November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as the Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s.
Irving was born and raised in Manhattan to a merchant family. He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. He temporarily moved to England for the family business in 1815, where he achieved fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. which was serialized from 1819 to 1820. He continued to publish regularly throughout his life, and he completed a five-volume biography of George Washington just eight months before his death at age 76 in Tarrytown, New York.
Irving was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and he encouraged other American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe. He was also admired by some British writers, including Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Francis Jeffrey, and Walter Scott. He advocated for writing as a legitimate profession and argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.
Filmography
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Movies 37
Writer 32
TV Shows 1
The Devil and Tom Walker and Me (2020)
Headless Horseman (2007)
The Hollow (2004)
The Southern Charm (2003)
The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow (2003)
Out of Time (2000)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The Night of the Headless Horseman (1999)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Ahmed, The Prince of the Alhambra (1998)
Wishbone: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1997)
Rip Van Winkle (1987)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1985)
Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980)
Once Upon a Midnight Scary (1979)
Rip Van Winkle (1978)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1972)
Tales of Washington Irving (1970)
Alhambra Tales (1950)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)
The Headless Horseman (1934)
The Headless Horseman (1922)
Rip Van Winkle (1921)
Rip Van Winkle (1914)
Rip's Dream (1905)
Rip Passing Over the Mountain (1896)
Rip Meeting the Dwarf (1896)
Awakening of Rip (1896)
Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
Rip's Toast (1896)
Rip's Toast to Hudson (1896)
Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow (1896)
Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep (1896)
Rip Van Winkle (1896)
Sleepy Hollow
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GenderMale
Birthday1783-04-03
Deathday1859-11-28 (76 years old)
Birth NameWashington Irving
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
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FatherWilliam Irving
MotherSarah Sanders
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsNational Academy of Design, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Real Academia de la Historia, Royal Society of Literature
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