Question: What author wrote a story about a  Dutch-American villager attributed to fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker?

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Zvi Preigerzon: Zvi-Gersh Preigerzon (October 26, 1900 – March 15, 1969) was a Ukrainian Jewish author who specialized in historical prose of a historically fictional nature.  The author wrote his books in the Original Hebrew while in the Soviet Union - which caused his arrest.  Preigerzon was also a scientist and inventor in the mineral processing field.  Further recognized for his scientific works by being named Dean of the Moscow State Mining University.

Myōjin Yahiko: Myōjin Yahiko (明神 弥彦 ) , known as Yahiko Myojin in the Media Blasters English-language dub and Yoshi Myojin in the English Sony "Samurai X" dub, is a fictional character from the "Rurouni Kenshin" manga and anime series authored by Nobuhiro Watsuki.  The character of Yahiko is based on the author's childhood experiences practicing kendo; since Watsuki's experienced frustration during kendo classes, the author wrote Yahiko as experiencing frustration with his kendo skills.  Watsuki liked Yahiko, and while writing the manga, he began to develop the character so that readers would enjoy him.

Roverandom: Roverandom is a novella by J.R.R. Tolkien, originally told in 1925, about the adventures of a young dog, Rover.  In the story, an irritable wizard turns Rover into a toy, and Rover goes to the moon and under the sea in order to find the wizard again to turn him back into a normal-sized dog.  The author wrote "Roverandom" for his son Michael to amuse him upon the loss of his favorite toy, a little leaden dog which he lost on a beach of grey shingle stones the same size and colour as the toy.  The work is in tone a children's story, but contains many allusions and references in the manner of "Farmer Giles of Ham".  "Roverandom" was included in the collection "Tales from the Perilous Realm" from its 2009 reprinting onwards.

Knickerbocker (surname): Knickerbocker, also spelled "Knikkerbakker", "Knikkerbacker", and "Knickerbacker", is a surname that dates back to the early settlers of New Netherland that was popularized by Washington Irving in 1809 when he published his satirical "A History of New York" under the pseudonym "Diedrich Knickerbocker".  The name was also a term for Manhattan's aristocracy "in the early days" and became a general term, now obsolete, for a New Yorker.

Knickerbocker Group: The Knickerbocker Group was a somewhat indistinct group" of writers, notably Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant, who were American pioneers in the literary fields of general literature, novels, and poetry and journalism, respectively.  Other talented poets, playwrights, writers, novelists, journalists, and editors joined this writer's club, dubbed the "Knickerbocker Group" after Irving's "Knickerbocker's History of New York" and pen name, "Diedrich Knickerbocker".

Miracles from Heaven: Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing is a memoir written by an American author Christy Beam, released on April 14, 2015.  The author wrote the book about her own sick daughter Annabel Beam.

Pseudo-Ambrose: Pseudo-Ambrose is the name given by Erasmus to refer to the author of a volume containing the first complete Latin commentary on the Pauline epistles.  Alexander Souter has established that the same author wrote the "Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testament", which had long been attributed to Saint Augustine.  Other works ascribed to the same author, less definitely, ore the "Lex Dei sive Mosaicarum et Romanorum legum collatio," "De bello judaico", and the fragmentary "Contra Arianos" sometimes ascribed to the pseudo-Hilary and the "sermo 246" of pseudo-Augustine.  They mention Simon Magus.

Rip Van Winkle: "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819.  Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it is part of a collection entitled "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. " Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."  The story's title character is a Dutch-American villager living around the time of the American Revolutionary War.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by American author Washington Irving.  It was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820.  The collection includes two of Irving's best-known stories, attributed to the fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle".  It also marks Irving's first use of the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon", which he would continue to employ throughout his literary career.

Bruce Barrymore Halpenny bibliography: This Bruce Barrymore Halpenny bibliography is a list of books by the author and military historian Bruce Barrymore Halpenny.  The author wrote for many magazines in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s – some under his own name and some under pseudonyms.  At one time he was writing articles for up to 14 military journals around the world when he was approached by the publishers Patrick Stephens to do the airfield books due to his vast knowledge and authority.  Books are in order by date.

Supporting paragraphs: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Rip Van Winkle
Answer: Washington Irving