the writer of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" also wrote a short story about a Dutch-American villager living around the time of the American Revolutionary War that was published in what year?
Rip Van Winkle "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it is part of a collection entitled "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." The story's title character is a Dutch-American villager living around the time of the American Revolutionary War.
The American Crisis The American Crisis is a pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution. Often known as "The American Crisis" or simply "The Crisis," there are 16 pamphlets in total. Thirteen numbered pamphlets were published between 1776 and 1777, with three additional pamphlets released between 1777 and 1783. The first of the pamphlets were published in "Pennsylvania Journal". Paine signed the pamphlets with the pseudonym, "Common Sense."