Brian Jay Jones crafts a deft biography of the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle : quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer, and fascinating charmer. The first American writer to make his pen his primary means of support, Washington Irving rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-six. In 1809 he published A History of New York under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, to great acclaim. The public s appetite for all things Irving was insatiable; his name alone guaranteed sales.At the time,.
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