Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Birth
Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
Death 28 Nov 1859 (aged 76)
Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York, USA
Burial
Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Memorial ID 531 · View Source
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Author. A short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer, attorney, and columnist, he was born in New York City as the youngest of 11 children. He has been called the “Father of the American Short Story”, and is best known for works 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' in which the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane meets with a headless horseman, and 'Rip Van Winkle,' about a man who falls asleep for 20 years. He wrote under the pseudonyms Dietrich Knickerbocker, Jonathan Oldstyle, and Geoffrey Crayon. From 1836 to 1842 Irving lived at Sunnyside manor house, Tarrytown, New York, where he died. In the 1990s the village of North Tarrytown was renamed Sleepy Hollow.

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  • Added: 31 Dec 2000
  • Find a Grave Memorial 531
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), memorial page for Washington Irving (3 Apr 1783–28 Nov 1859), Find a Grave Memorial no. 531, citing Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .