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Irving, Washington

Born Apr. 3, 1783, in New York City; died Nov. 28, 1859, in Tarrytown. American writer; initiator of romanticism and the short story genre in the literature of the USA.

Son of a Scottish-born merchant who had taken part in the North American War of Independence of 1775–83, Irving made his literary debut with a series of humorous sketches on American life. His History of New York (1809), written by the fictitious Diedrich Knickerbocker, is a burlesquely comic chronicle of the city of New York when it was still a small Dutch settlement. The Sketch Book (1819–20) is a medley of short stories, essays, and articles. His Bracebridge Hall (1822) is a book that offers scenes from the lives of residents of a patriarchal English estate. In the Tales of a Traveller (1824) Irving condemned hypocrisy and Puritan intolerance. In the collection The Alhambra (1832) quaint fantasy is no obstacle to his denunciation of despotism. Astoria (1836), however, is a work in which Irving idealizes capitalist expansion westward.

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Works, vols. 1–12. New York, 1910.
In Russian translation:
Rasskazy i legendy. Moscow-Leningrad, 1939.
Novelty. Moscow, 1954.

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Istoriia amerikanskoi literatury, vol. 1. Moscow-Leningrad, 1947.
Sherstiuk, V. F. “Novelly V. Irvinga 20-kh gg.” Uch. zap. Moskovskogo
oblastnogo ped. in-ta: Zarubezhnaia literatura, 1963, vol. 130.
Warner, C. D. Washington Irving. Port Washington (N. Y.) [1968].

B. A. GILENSON

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Irving's first major work came in 1809 with A History of New York, penned under the memorable nom de plume Diedrich Knickerbocker.

The escape artist by Nazaryan, Alexander / New Criterion

He raised up memories of strange characters, of queer goings on, of local stories and of funny incidents and Irving's thoughts turned back to his writing - for in 1809 he had brought out The History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker.

Birmingham muse for iconic US writer by Birmingham Mail (England)

KNICKERBOCKER GLORY"This elaborate dessert was inspired by Diedrich Knickerbocker, a name dreamt up by Washington Irving for the fictitious author of his History Of New York which was subsequently used to describe descendants of the original Dutch settlers.

Food: Orient success; Marco Pierre White creates a pot roast and a ... by White, Marco Pierre / The Mirror (London, England)

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