Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): This man wrote a story in which one character becomes a loan shark in hope of gaining Captain Kidd's treasure from a swamp, and in one of his stories two characters vie for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. Many of this man's stories are collected in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, and he wrote one story about a man who plays nine-pins with ghosts in the Catskills before falling asleep for twenty years. The author of a story in which Brom Bones impersonates a dead Hessian to scare schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, for 10 points, name this author of "Rip van Winkle" who wrote about the "headless horseman" in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Output (English): Literature