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Presentation on theme: "Washington Irving 1783-1859."— Presentation transcript:

1 Washington Irving

2 Early Life Irving was born in New York City
His mother named him after George Washington; Irving was born the same week as the ceasefire, which ended the American RevolutionHis parents had 11 children, eight of whom survived into adulthoodThere was a yellow fever outbreak in 1789 in New York City that led his family to send him away with another family in Tarrytown New York.He eventually would make the settings of his more famous works, these more rural areas of New York, along the Hudson River or in the Catskill Mountains.

3 Writing CareerHe is known as an author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomatFor his first major book A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker, a satire, he created a hoax that claimed the author had gone missing.Within The Sketch Book of Geof