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washington irving
He rejected offers to run for Congress & Mayor of New York & to be Van Buren's Secretary of the Navy
Trivia about washington irving
He was born in NYC on April 3, 1783, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, & named for one of the war's heroes
A group of 19th c. authors is called the Knickerbocker Group after his pen name
This author created Ichabod Crane & Rip Van Winkle
The "History of New York... by Diedrich Kickerbocker" was actually written by him
It's believed Santa's reindeer & sleigh were 1st mentioned in this author's "Knickerbocker History"
His 1809 work "A History of New York" relates the Dutch occupation of Manhattan
Sunnyside, the old Dutch home he remodeled in Tarrytown, N.Y., was made a public shrine in 1947
This creator of Ichabod Crane passed the bar exam in 1806 but never practiced much law
America's first literary lion, this "History of New York" author mentored Hawthorne & Poe
This 19th century New Yorker wrote of one guy who slept for 20 years & another who went around headless
He created Crane, Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher in Sleepy Hollow
Diedrich Knickerbocker, a "sleepy" novelist
St. Nick smoked a long pipe & wore a broad-brimmed hat in his 1809 "Knickerbocker's History of New York"
While in Paris in the 1820s, this "Rip Van Winkle" author co-wrote plays with John Howard Payne
Rip's tale appears in "The Sketch Book" written by this man
"It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball"
He's the author whose work is presented here, with a little help from our friend Wishbone
During the War Of 1812, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of Naval commanders
He wrote "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" & "A History of New York"
Diedrich Knickerbocker
One contributor to "Knickerbocker" magazine was this author, who used Knickerbocker as a pseudonym
This Tarrytown, N.Y. author's cross-country trip was the source for his 1835 book "A Tour on the Prairies"
He was among the first to use the word, in an 1809 reference to a N.Y. Dutch treat of sweet dough fried in hog fat
While working at the U.S. embassy in Madrid, this Knickerbocker knocked out a Columbus bio
Appropriately, New York state's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is where you'll find this author's grave
His pen names included Launcelot Wagstaffe, Geoffrey Crayon & Diedrich Knickerbocker
Among his pen names were Jonathan Oldstyle, Gentleman & Diedrich Knickerbocker