User:Washington irving
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Washington Irving was a famous American author of the 19th century who wrote amongst other things the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle.
Washington Irving was also one of the pseudonyms adopted by Yossarian in Joseph Heller's novel Catch 22. The character had the job of censoring mail from his fellow airmen based at a Mediterranean island during World War Two. Yossarian took a light-hearted approach to this duty, sometimes redacting all but a few words from the letters.