1478225785

9781478225782

11 Jul 2012

30

0.06

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2

Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer, and diplomat. He was born in 1783 in Manhattan, New York, to Scottish English immigrants and spent much of his adult life in Europe as the US ambassador to Spain. He is best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle," and is widely considered America's first bestselling author. He died in 1859.