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1783-1859. US essayist and short-story
writer. He published a mock-heroic History of
New York in 1809, supposedly written by the
Dutchman `Diedrich Knickerbocker'. In 1815 he
went to England where he published The Sketch
Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820, which
contained such stories as `Rip van Winkle'
and `The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'.