Question

_____ drew upon the Dutch history of New York in his stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” James Fenimore Cooper Louisa May Alcott Washington Irving Thomas Cole

Answer 1

Washington Irving.

Step-by-step explanation:

Washington Irving was an author, short story writer, historian, and biographer, among other things. His famous works include "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".

In his two gothic short stories, Irving drew on the history of the Dutch people in New York. He uses or based his characters in both stories as people who were of Dutch descent, from the Dutch settlers. The setting of "The Sleepy Hollow" is in the Dutch Community of New York, which is similar to that of "Rip Van Winkle", a story set in a small village in the Catskill Mountains of New York, occupied predominantly by Dutch Americans.