The complete online text of Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Washington Irving.

"I seek only to blow a flute accompaniment in the national concert, and leave others to play the fiddle & frenchhorn," Washington Irving said in an 1819 letter. While his flute music for a time was a dominant strain, it still remains discernible in t...

Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with The Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...

Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with the Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...

Roberto Valero, 34, is a Cuban-born writer and poet who teaches Latin American literature at George Washington University. In April 1980, he was one of nearly 11,000 people who flooded the Peruvian Embassy in Havana hoping to flee Cuba. The month-long occupation at the...