Book Description The Washington Irving Library is the classic collection of works by a man who dreamed up Rip Van Winkle and The Headless Horseman. What do you do after you have missed forty years of your life? And what exactly does this horseman want and what will it take to make him go away? Listeners will visit a time of yesterday, where horses were transportation and life moved at a different pace.
About the Author Washington Irving was born in New York City, the youngest of 11 children. He traveled extensively in Europe, and was admitted to the New York Bar after private study, in 1806. Irving was a poet, travel-writer and biographer. He was a prominent member of the Knickerbocker writing group in New York, and served as president of the New York Public Library before his death.