Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
 He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
" His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith, and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors and the Alhambra.
 Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846.
Gene Allan Cretz (born 1950) is a career diplomat who retired from the Senior Foreign Service in 2015.
 Before retiring, he was the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana.
 Before this, he was the first U.S. Ambassador to Libya since 1972, after being nominated in July 2007 by President Bush.
 His nomination was confirmed by the US Senate on November 21, 2008.
 He was sworn-in as U.S. Ambassador to Libya by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on December 17, 2008, at the State Department.
 He arrived in Libya on December 27, 2008.
 Cretz speaks a number of languages, including Arabic, Dari, Urdu, and Chinese.
 President Barack Obama nominated him for the post to Ghana in April 2012.
 He was sworn-in as the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on September 11, 2012.
 His retirement ceremony was held at the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, July 1, 2015.
The United States Permanent Representative to NATO (commonly called the U.S. Ambassador to NATO) is the official representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
 The Representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
 The full official title of the Representative is United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
 The current U.S. Ambassador to NATO is Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (Pashto: زلمی خلیلزاد "Zalmay Khalīlzād"; born March 22, 1951) is a former American diplomat and a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and president of Gryphon Partners and Khalilzad Associates, an international business consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. He was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush.
 He has been involved with U.S. policy makers at the White House, State Department and Pentagon since the mid-1980s, and was the highest-ranking Muslim American in the Administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.
 Khalilzad's previous assignments in the Administration include U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq.
 In 2017, he was considered for U.S. Secretary of State under the Presidency of Donald Trump.
Maura Connelly is an American diplomat.
 President Obama nominated Ambassador Connelly, a 25-year veteran of the Foreign Service, as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon in June 2010.
 Ambassador Connelly was confirmed by the Senate in August 2010 and sworn in by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in September 2010.
 She officially presented her diplomatic credentials to Lebanese President Michel Sleiman as the 25th U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon on September 15, 2010.
Thomas Bolling Robertson (born 1950) is a career foreign service officer, ambassador, and member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor.
 He was the U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia 2004–2008.
 President George W. Bush nominated Robertson as U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia on February 6, 2004.
 The U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination on May 6, 2004, and he was sworn in by Secretary Powell as Ambassador on September 16, 2004.
John Francis Maisto (born 28 August 1938) is a U.S. former foreign service officer and former ambassador.
 Previously, he was the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), the U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela 1997–2000 and the Ambassador to Nicaragua 1993–1996.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
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 Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820.
 Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the headless horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannonball in battle.
Joseph Edward Lake (born October 18, 1941) is an American career diplomat who, in 1990, became the first resident U.S. Ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic (the first U.S. ambassador to Mongolia, Richard L. Williams, was not a resident there).
 Later, he was named U.S. Ambassador to Albania (1994–1996) and then Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Information Management (1996–1997).
 He is the father of late science fiction author Jay Lake.
Stanley Tuemler Escudero (born 10 March 1942) is a retired American diplomat who served in the U.S. foreign service in multiple capacities.
 He was U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan, 1992–1995, U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan, 1995–1997, and U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan, 1997-2000.

Question: The U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846 wrote a book while living in what town in England?
Answer: Birmingham