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Washington Irving

Daguerreotype of Washington Irving
(modern copy by Mathew Brady,
original by John Plumbe)
Pen name Geoffrey Crayon, Diedrich Knickerbocker, Jonathan Oldstyle
Kaam
  • Short story writer
  • essayist
  • biographer
  • historian
  • diplomat
Literary movement Romanticism
Relative(s) William Irving (brother)
Peter Irving (brother)
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Washington Irving (3 April 178328 November 1859), United States ke ek chhotaa khissa ke lekhak, essayist, biographer, historian, aur diplomat early 19th century ke rahaa. Uu chhotaa khissa "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) aur "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), likhis rahaa jon duuno uske sangrah The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. me hae. Uske itihasik kaam me hae Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, aur George Washington, aur iske saathe dher itihaas 15th century Spain ke baare me jon subjects jaise Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, aur Moors ke baare me likhis rahaa. Irving American ambassador to Spain 1840s me rahaa.