2007-11-21 13:00:24 · 4 answers · asked by aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Here's his bibliography:
"Fiction
Astoria
Bracebridge Hall
Knickerbocker's History of New York
Old Christmas
Tales of a Traveller
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
The Crayon Papers
The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
Non-Fiction
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
Life of George Washington
Oliver Goldsmith
Short Stories
A Legend of Communipaw
Communipaw
Conspiracy of the ****** Hats
Desultory Thoughts on Criticism
Little Britain
National Nomenclature
Pelayo and the Merchant's Daughter
Recollections of The Alhambra
Rip Van Winkle
Spanish Romance
The Abencerrage
The Adelantado of the Seven Cities
The Bermudas
The Birds of Spring
The Count van Horn
The Devil and Tom Walker
The Enchanted Island
The Knight of Malta
The Legend of Don Munio Sancho de Hinojosa
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of the Engulphed Convent"
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2007-11-21 13:21:48 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He wrote a combination of both. For instance, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville and Astoria, though sometimes considered embellished history, are western adventures and Bonneville was a real man.
Washington Irving was a historian, essayist as well as a fiction writer.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is, of course, fiction as is Rip Van Winkle and many others.
Check Wikipedia for some more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving#Pen_names_and_associated_writings
2007-11-21 21:15:31 · answer #2 · answered by ck1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He wrote both. His most famous stories, "Rip van Winkle", "Sleepy Hollow" are fiction. But he was one of the first to write a biography of George Washington, for whom he was named.
2007-11-21 21:24:17 · answer #3 · answered by filmnoirgirl16 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
fiction
2007-11-21 21:15:11 · answer #4 · answered by Truth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋