E.B. White

1899-1985

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White was born on July 11, 1899 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was a 1921 graduate of Cornell University. White wrote for both The New Yorker and Harper's magazines. In 1929 he married Katharine S. Angell. They were the parents of one son. In 1957 the Whites left New York and moved to a farm in North Brooklin, Maine. He was the recipient of many awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963), the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented by the American Library Association in 1970 for "a lasting contribution to children's literature." In 1978 he received a special Pulitzer Prize citation for the body of his work. He died on October 1, 1985. He succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease at his farm in North Brooklin, Maine. Below is listed many of his fine accomplishments.
Selected works:

THE LADY IS COLD, 1928
IS SEX NECESSARY?, 1929 (collaboration with James Thurber )
HO-HUM: NEWSBREAKS FROM THE NEW YORKER, 1931
ANOTHER HO-HUM, 1932
EVERY DAY IS SATURDAY, 1934
THE FOX OF PEAPACK, 1938
QUO VADIMUS, 1939
A SUBTREASURY OF AMERICAN HUMOUR, 1941 (ed. with Katherine Sergeant Angell)
ONE MAN'S MEAT, 1942
STUART LITTLE, 1945
THE WILD FLAG, 1946
HERE IS NEW YORK, 1949
CHARLOTTE'S WEB, 1952
THE SECOND TREE FROM THE CORNER, 1954
THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, 1959 (with W. Strunk, Jr.)
THE POINTS OF MY COMPASS, 1962
E.B. WHITE READER, 1966
THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN, 1970
LETTERS OF E.B. WHITE, 1976, ed. by D.L. Guth
ESSAYS OF E.B. WHITE, 1977
POEMS AND SKETCHES OF E.B. WHITE, 1981
WRITINGS FROM THE NEW YORKER, 1925-76, 1990

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E(lwyn) B(rooks) White (1899-1985/)
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The Door
E. B. White's Christmas

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