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A celebrity in the era of horse, buggy ; "Washington Irving -- An American Original" by Brian Jay Jones Arcade, $29.95, 468 pp.

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From: Albuquerque Journal
Date: 20080120
Author:DAVID STEINBERG Journal Staff Writer

It's American Lit pop quiz time. Can you name the person who wrote the famous stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"? If you guessed James Fenimore Cooper, you're wrong. If you said Washington Irving, you're correct. Irving made his name as an author, but he was more than that. He was a man of the world. Irving rubbed elbows with American presidents. He was buddies with writers Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Irving was on a first-name basis with tycoon John Jacob Astor. In the eyes of biographer Brian Jay Jones, ...

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