Part one of term paper
Washington Irving was a American writer, the first American author to achieve international fame, who created the fictional characters Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane. The strict acceptance and standing popularity of Irving's tales involving these characters proved the effectiveness of the short story in American literary form. Irvi ...

Part two of term paper
... as early as 1802. And a group of these pieces, written from 1802 to 1803 and collected under the title "Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle", won Irving his earliest literary recognition. From 1807 to 1808, he was the leading person in a social group that included his brothers William Irving and Peter Irving and William's brother-in-law James Kirke Paulding, together they wrote "Salmagundi", or, the "Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff", and others, a series of essays and poems on New Y ...