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E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)[1] was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).

E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White

July 11, 1899

October 1, 1985(1985-10-01) (aged 86)

Brooklin Cemetery, Brooklin, Maine, U.S.

Writer

(m. 1929; died 1977)

In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was ranked first in their poll of the top one hundred children's novels.[2] White also was a contributing editor to The New Yorker magazine and co-author of The Elements of Style, an English language style guide.

Early life and education[edit]

White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the sixth and youngest child of Samuel Tilly White, the president of a piano firm, and Jessie Hart White, the daughter of Scottish-American painter William Hart.[3] Elwyn's older brother Stanley Hart White, known as Stan, a professor of landscape architecture and the inventor of the vertical garden, taught E.B. White to read and explore the natural world.[4]


While attending Cornell University, White was very briefly a private in the Student Army Training Corps (SATC). In early 1918, the War Department created the SATC to hasten the training of soldiers for the war in Europe. Students continued to take college courses while training for the army. Unlike the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), SATC students were required to live and take all meals on campus and adhered to a strict military schedule of study and training. They also required a pass to go off campus on weekends. Following the end of World War I, the SATC program was disbanded in December 1918, and White did not serve with the active armed forces.[5][6][7][8]


In 1921, White graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. At Cornell, he obtained the nickname "Andy", where tradition confers that moniker on any male student whose surname is White after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White,[9] and worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig, who later became a sportswriter for The New York Times. As a Cornell University student, White was a member of Aleph Samach,[10] Quill and Dagger,[11][12] and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.[13][14]

1953 for Charlotte's Web

Newbery Honor

1960

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal

1963

Presidential Medal of Freedom

1970 [22]

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award

1971

National Medal for Literature

1977 , Letters of E.B. White

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

1978 for Letters[20]

Pulitzer Prize Special Citation

Death[edit]

Later in life, White developed Alzheimer's disease. He died on October 1, 1985, at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine.[1] He is buried in the Brooklin Cemetery beside Katharine, who died in 1977.[29]

Legacy[edit]

The E.B. White Read Aloud Award is given by The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) to honor books that its membership feel embodies the universal read-aloud standards that E.B. White's works created.

Less than Nothing, or, The Life and Times of Sterling Finny (1927)

[30]

White, E. B. (1929). The Lady Is Cold: poems by E.B.W. New York: Harper and Brothers.

Thurber, James; White, E. B. (1929). . New York: Harper & Brothers.

Is sex necessary? Or, why you feel the way you do

Ho Hum: Newsbreaks from The New Yorker (1931). Intro by E. B. White, and much of the text as well.

Alice Through the Cellophane, (1933)

John Day

Every Day Is Saturday, Harper (1934)

Farewell to Model T (1936, G P Putnam's Sons) - originally published under pseudonym Lee Strout White as Farewell, My Lovely! (, The New Yorker) collaboration with Richard L. Strout

1936

The Fox of Peapack, and other poems (1938, Harper)

Quo Vadimus: or The Case for the Bicycle, Harper (1938)

(1941). Co-edited with Katherine S. White.

A Subtreasury of American Humor

One Man's Meat (1942): A collection of his columns from

Harper's Magazine

The Wild Flag: Editorials from The New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters (1943)

(1945)

Stuart Little

Here Is New York (1949)

(1952)

Charlotte's Web

The Second Tree from the Corner ()

1954

(by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, revised and expanded by White in 1959)

The Elements of Style

The Points of My Compass (1962) - letters

(1970)

The Trumpet of the Swan

Letters of E. B. White (1976)

Essays of E. B. White (1977)

Poems and Sketches of E. B. White (1981)

Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976 (, HarperCollins, ed. Rebecca M. Dale)

1990

Farewell to Model T / From Sea to Shining Sea (2003, Little Bookroom)

In the Words of E. B. White (2011)

An E. B. White Reader. Edited by William W. Watt and Robert W. Bradford.

The Paris Review, Fall 1969 – interview by George Plimpton and Frank H. Crowther

"E.B. White, The Art of the Essay No. 1"

on YouTube (audio-video)

In the Words of E.B. White – Book Trailer

based on Here Is New York

miNYstories

at Open Library

Works by E. B. White

at the Internet Broadway Database

E. B. White

at Playbill Vault

E. B. White

at Find a Grave

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