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.
A Tragedy of Error A Tragedy of Error is the title of a short story by American writer Henry James, his first, written at the age of 21 and published anonymously in the February 1864 issue of "Continental Monthly". This story was never collected or published by James in book form, but appears in the Library of America edition of his stories that cover the years 1864-1874.