For 10 points, identify this author who wrote about a man who sleeps for twenty years, Rip van Winkle.
He published a series of character sketches called Bracebridge Hall under a pen name, and he used that pen name for Tales of a Traveler, which contains a short story in which a man agrees to become a loan shark working for the devil. In addition to "The Devil and Tom Walker," he credited Geoffrey Crayon as the author of his Tales of the Alhambra, but he is better known for a tale wherein a man who plays ninepins with some strange people in the Catskills. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote about a man who sleeps for twenty years, Rip van Winkle.
He published a series of character sketches called Bracebridge Hall under a pen name, and he used that pen name for Tales of a Traveler, which contains a short story in which a man agrees to become a loan shark working for the devil.
Washington {Irving} [accept {Geoffrey Crayon} before it is read]