Washington Irving
Headless Horseman's chronicler
Washington Irving (1783–1859) was an American writer, the first to achieve international literary fame.
His short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" established enduring American folklore.
Irving also wrote biographies and travel sketches, and his genial prose style influenced generations of American writers.
Washington Irving is sometimes called the father of American literature.
Man who overslept generations
- Sleepy HollowHaunted New York hamlet
- Headless HorsemanMounted specter lacking cranium
- legendUnverified traditional tale
- ghost storyNarrative featuring apparitions
Ichabod Crane · Catskills · Hudson Valley · Dutch settlers · supernatural · apparition · specter · pumpkin
Medieval Islamic palace-fortress
- KnickerbockerDutch-descended Manhattan resident
- AstoriaPacific Northwest seaport
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- biographerOne who writes lives
historian · short stories · prose · satire · humorist · storyteller · pseudonym · sketch
Dutch-descended Manhattan resident
- New YorkNortheastern metropolis and state
- Hudson RiverMajor New York estuary
- AlbanyNew York State capital
- SunnysideUpbeat geographic name
colonial · patriotism · diplomat · ambassador · Spain · minister · statesman · nationalism
Visually pleasing, paintable
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- sublimeAwe-inspiring greatness
melancholy · nature · landscape · ruins · Old World · antiquity · chivalry · escapism
Rip Van Winkle
Man who overslept generations
- Sleepy HollowHaunted New York hamlet
- Headless HorsemanMounted specter lacking cranium
- legendUnverified traditional tale
Ichabod Crane · ghost story · Catskills · Hudson Valley · Dutch settlers · supernatural · apparition · specter · pumpkin · tale
Alhambra
Medieval Islamic palace-fortress
- KnickerbockerDutch-descended Manhattan resident
- AstoriaPacific Northwest seaport
- essayistAuthor of short prose
biographer · historian · short stories · prose · satire · humorist · storyteller · pseudonym · sketch · tale
Knickerbocker
Dutch-descended Manhattan resident
- New YorkNortheastern metropolis and state
- Hudson RiverMajor New York estuary
- AlbanyNew York State capital
Sunnyside · colonial · patriotism · diplomat · ambassador · Spain · minister · statesman · nationalism · revolutionary
picturesque
Visually pleasing, paintable
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
sublime · melancholy · nature · landscape · ruins · Old World · antiquity · chivalry · escapism · idealism
- Knickerbocker WritersJames Fenimore Cooper
- American ClassicsMoby-Dick, Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Leaves of Grass
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- American AuthorsMark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Twain, Poe, Hawthorne
- Early American LiteratureBenjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Common Sense, Federalist Papers
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
Washington IrvingJack London
Upton Sinclair · Charles Bukowski · Mark Twain · realist fiction · muckrakers
Washington IrvingMark Twain
Walt Whitman · James Fenimore Cooper · Herman Melville · Davy Crockett · Henry David Thoreau
Washington IrvingGeorge Washington
founding fathers · men of action · Thomas Jefferson · Benjamin Franklin · Alexander Hamilton