Washington Irving was an American author who lived from 1783 to 1859. He was born in New York City and showed early literary promise. Some of his most famous works included A History of New York, The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon which included the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." These stories contained distinctly American settings and characters. After traveling and living in Europe for many years, Irving returned to America in 1832 and lived the rest of his life in his home called Sunnyside in Tarrytown, New York, where he died in 1859.
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2. Washington Irving
1783-1859
born in New York City
(near present-day Wall St.)
youngest of 11 children
parents were ScottishEnglish immigrants
3. Biographical Information
his parents greatly admired General George
Washington (hence his name)
his father became a wealthy merchant
he trained as a lawyer but practiced only briefly
showed literary promise early in his life
5. Writing Career Begins
1802-3 published a series of newspaper articles
1807-8 published the Salmagundi papers
1809 published 1st major work – A History of New York
it was supposedly written by Deidrich Knickerbocker,
an old, eccentric historian
6. this work marked Irving’s future course
it was designed solely for entertainment
it taught no serious moral lessons
his fiancée died in 1809
accounts for melancholic cast over rest of his life
and work
7. Career Shifts to Europe in 1815
sailed for England to take charge of family
business in Liverpool
when it bankrupted, he concentrated on literary
career
traveled throughout England, France, Spain,
Germany, and Switzerland
wrote history of Christopher Columbus
8. Literary Career Continues
1819 - 1820
published The
Sketch-Book of
Geoffrey Crayon,
it included “Rip
Van Winkle”
and “The
Legend of
Sleepy Hollow”
Old Rip
10. Irving Widely Recognized
By the late 1820s, Irving had gained a
reputation throughout Europe and
America as a great writer and thinker
11. Returns to America in 1832
returned from Europe to New York
established his home Sunnyside in Tarrytown
never married or had children
for next 25 years he shared Sunnyside with his
brother Ebenezer and Ebenezer's 5 daughters
15. First Genuine American Stories
“Rip Van Winkle”
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
contained distinctive American
settings and characters
incorporated German folktales and
legends
16. Irving’s Grave
On November
28, 1859, on
the eve of the
Civil War,
Washington
Irving died at
Sunnyside
surrounded by
his family.
17. Old Dutch Church in
Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
He was
buried in
the Sleepy
Hollow
Cemetery at
the Old
Dutch
Church
18. Works Cited
All photos in this
PowerPoint presentation
came from the
American Memory Collection
of the
Library of Congress
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Editor's Notes
Just as he Americanized European folktales, Washington Irving helped to popularize various Dutch, German and British yuletide traditions in America—the most famous being the gift-bearing Saint Nicholas (familiarly known as Sinter Klaas by the Dutch and later, our modern day Santa Claus) whom Irving introduced to American readers under one of his pseudo names.
Many people in Europe and England felt that America would never develop a literary voice of its own. But then came Washington Irving, the youngest and not to well educated son of a pious hardware importer and his amiable wife.
One of Irving’s major invented narrators was a man he called Deidrich Knickerbocker. Irving pretended that Knickerbocker was the author of a book called A History of New York.
The mysterious Knickerbocker is supposted to have left the manuscript to his landlord in payment of back rent. This fake and comical history, in which the entire American past was ridiculed established Washington Irving as the foremost New York satirist.
In 1815, Irving was sent off by his father to Liverpool, England, to look after the failing overseas branch of the family business. Irving found the business to be beyond repair, but he loved the British literary scene and stayed abroad for 17 years. He traveled and devoted himself entirely to writing, basing many of his first drafts on German Folk Tales.
These tales were narrated by yet another of Irving’s comic voices, Geoffrey Crayon and the stories were collected under the title The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
Under these names and eventually his own, Irving became Americas first international literary celebrity. This was a role that Irving enjoyed and exploited to the fullest.
He had always loved parties, people, and praise. Now he had access to the literacy circles of the world. It was a remarkable achievement for the unpromising child of a middle-class American family.
Irving’s next book, Tales of a Traveller, which included “The Devil and Tom Walker”, the story that we will be reading, was met with unfavorable reviews by the public and Irving stopped writing fiction all together.
Sadly, he never wrote anything that matched the success of the two great tales in The Sketch Book.
Irving is most remembered for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.
