Irving became one of Americas country's best-known writers and historians. The book met with immediate success wherever it was published. Irving was largely responsible, along with the French writers of the same period, for the Romantic image of Al-Andalus which persists to this day. It weaves a series of stories around the folk with whom he shared his life there. In Spain he wrote " Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada" (1829) and his best known work " Tales of the Alhambra" which was first published in London in 1832 under the title " The Alhambra a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and the Spaniards". In 1829 he journeyed from Seville to Granada and then took up residence in the Alhambra palace when it was in an abandoned state. In England he was secretary to the American Embassy and then took up the post in Spain as Ambassador. When it collapsed he turned to writing but also figured proximately in the diplomatic world. Washington Irving was the son of a New York merchant, he was trained in law but gave it up for the family business.
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