<P> `` Rip Van Winkle '' is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819 . It follows a Dutch - American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later , having missed the American Revolution . Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham , England as part of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon , Gent . The story is set in New York 's Catskill Mountains , but Irving later admitted , `` When I wrote the story , I had never been on the Catskills . '' </P>
<P> `` Rip Van Winkle '' is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819 . It follows a Dutch - American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later , having missed the American Revolution . Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham , England as part of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon , Gent . The story is set in New York 's Catskill Mountains , but Irving later admitted , `` When I wrote the story , I had never been on the Catskills . '' </P>
fairy tale about a man who slept for 100 years
fairy tale about a man who slept for 100 years
`` Rip Van Winkle ''
`` Rip Van Winkle ''