Washington Irving is the first American writer who gained worldwide fame and won young American literature the “right of citizenship” in the minds of a multi-experienced and discerning European reader, “the first ambassador of the New World in the Old,” as U. puts it. Thackeray. Irving pioneered themes that later became mainstream in U.S. literature, he was the first to develop a novella, a favorite genre of American writers, and created a prose style that was considered exemplary for several generations. In the novellas, Irving appears as a true romantic. The first romantic that was put forward by American literature .