1807, he and his brother William and others * * * founded an accidental publication Miscellaneous, which followed the tradition of18th century English writers Swift and Fielding's The Bystander and started his literary creation activities. Show his humor, wit and implicit irony. The History of new york (1809) and 18 19, Owen published many essays, essays and stories in succession, totaling 32, which were collected by 1820 and published as notes of experience, which attracted the attention of European and American literary circles.

Byron, an English poet, once expressed his love for his works. Owen himself said, "I just want to play the flute in the national concerto and let others play the violin and French horn." This work established Owen's position in the history of American literature. Among them, the prose "Westminster Abbey", the short story "Rip's Dream" and "The Legend of Sleeping Valley" are well-known and enduring. Owen also answered a question raised by an English writer very contemptuously in the article "English Writers on America": "Who will read an American book?" Owen said: "... honor and prestige depend not only on British opinions, but also on a country's reputation in the wider world." Some people think that Owen's article can be regarded as a declaration of independence in American literature.

After Reading Notes, Owen wrote Bresbridge Granci (1822) and The Traveler's Talk in Fairy Tales (1824), both of which are not as good as Reading Notes. From 65438 to 0826, Owen was the librarian of the American Embassy in Spain in Madrid. The Life and Navigation of Columbus was published in 1828. 1829 published Conquest of Granada. In the same year, he visited Alhambra, the Moore Palace in Granada, and later published Alhambra, a collection of travel notes, essays and stories (1832).