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Roger K. Miller was a retired editor for the Pittsburgh Post who wrote a few books for children entertainment; his most popular novel is a children’s book written in 2007 called Invisible Hero. He now resides with his wife and children in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, as a children’s orthodontist. During the time when he worked with the Pittsburgh Post, he wrote articles about history lessons, one of which talked about Andrew Burstein’s novel, The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving. Burstein’s novel described why Irving’s writings had an effect on the timing of his literature: books were not successful after the Revolutionary War. Irving’s first novel, a satire book simply known as, "A History of New York From the Beginning

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