Washington Irving
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- (1783-1859) the first US writer to gain an international reputation. He is best known for two short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, which were published in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (1820). He also wrote the comic History of New York (1809) under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker. Irving was later the US ambassador to Spain (1842-6).
华盛顿·欧文（1783-1859）：第一位获得国际声誉的美国作家。他以短篇小说《困空心的传说》和《瑞普·范·温克尔》而闻名，这两个短篇小说发表在根特的《杰弗里·蜡笔素描簿》（1820年）中。他还以Diedrich Knickerbocker的名字写了漫画《纽约历史》（1809）。欧文后来是美国驻西班牙大使（1842-6）。