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.
Winesburg, Ohio Winesburg, Ohio (full title: "Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life") is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man. It is set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio (not to be confused with the actual Winesburg), which is based loosely on the author's childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio.