Ia membuat debut pertamanya pada 1802 dengan serangkaian surat pengamatan kepada Morning Chronicle, ditulis dengan pseudonimJonathan Oldstyle. Setelah pindah ke Inggris demi bisnis keluarga tahun 1815, ia mendapatkan ketenaran internasional dengan diterbitkannya The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. tahun 1819. Ia terus menerbitkan karya secara rutin—dan hampir selalu sukses—sepanjang hidupnya, dan menyelesaikan biografi George Washington sebanyak lima volume delapan bulan sebelum kematiannya pada usia 76 tahun di Tarrytown, New York.
Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson
1841
Washington Irving
Biografi
Mahomet and His Successors
1850
Washington Irving
Biografi
Wolfert's Roost
1855
Geoffrey Crayon Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving
Biography
The Life of George Washington (5 volume)
1855–1859
Washington Irving
Biografi
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Catatan kaki
^Irving's publisher, John Murray, overrode Irving's decision to use this pseudonym and published the book under Irving's name—much to the annoyance of its author. See Jones 258-59.
^Composed of the three short stories "A Tour on the Prairies", "Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey", and "Legends of the Conquest of Spain".
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Irving, Washington. (1828) History of the Life of Christopher Columbus, 3 volumes, 1828, G. & C. Carvill, publishers, New York, New York; as 4 volumes, 1828, John Murray, publisher, London; and as 4 volumes, 1828, Paris A. and W. Galignani, publishers, France.
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