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Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including ''
Stuart Little ''Stuart Little'' is a 1945 American children's novel by E. B. White. It was White's first children's book, and became recognized as a classic in children's literature. ''Stuart Little'' was illustrated by the artist Garth Williams, also his f ...
'' (1945), ''
Charlotte's Web ''Charlotte's Web'' is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams. It was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. It tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his frie ...
'' (1952), and ''
The Trumpet of the Swan ''The Trumpet of the Swan'' is a children's novel by E. B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a trumpeter swan born without a voice who overcomes this difficulty by learning to play a trumpet in order to impress a beautifu ...
'' (1970). In a 2012 survey of ''
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'' readers, ''Charlotte's Web'' was ranked first in their poll of the top one hundred children's novels. White also was a contributing editor to ''
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'' magazine and co-author of ''
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'', an
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.
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called White "one of the most admirable prose stylists our country has so far produced."


Early life, family and education

White was born in
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, on July 11, 1899, 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. Elwyn's older brother Stanley Hart White, known as Stan, a professor of
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and the inventor of the vertical garden, taught E. B. White to read and explore the natural world. White attended
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, where he was briefly a private in the
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(SATC), created by the
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in 1918 to hasten the training of US soldiers for
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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. In 1921, White graduated from Cornell University with a
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. At Cornell, he obtained the nickname "Andy", where tradition confers that moniker on any male student whose surname is White after Cornell co-founder
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. He worked as editor of ''
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'' with classmate
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, who later became a sportswriter for ''
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''. As a Cornell University student, White was a member of
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,
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, and
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fraternity.


Career

After graduating from Cornell, White went to work for the United Press, later
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, and the
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News Service in 1921 and 1922. From September 1922 to June 1923, he was a cub reporter for ''
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''. On one occasion, when White was stuck writing a story, a ''Times'' editor said, "Just say the words." White was fired from the ''Times'' and later wrote for the rival ''
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'' before a stint in
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on a fireboat. He then worked for almost two years with the Frank Seaman advertising agency as a production assistant and copywriter before returning to New York City in 1924. In 1925, after ''
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'' was founded, White began submitting manuscripts to the magazine. Katharine Angell, the literary editor, recommended to editor-in-chief and founder
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that White be hired as a staff writer. However, it took months to convince White to attend a meeting at the office and additional weeks to convince him to work on the premises. He eventually agreed to work in the office on Thursdays. White published his first article for ''The New Yorker'' in 1925, then joined the staff in 1927, and continued to write for the magazine for nearly six decades. Best recognized for his essays and unsigned "Notes and Comment" pieces, he gradually became the magazine's most important contributor. From the beginning to the end of his career at ''The New Yorker,'' he frequently provided what the magazine calls "Newsbreaks", which were short, witty comments on oddly worded printed items from many sources, under various categories, such as "Block That Metaphor." He also was a columnist for ''
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'' from 1938 to 1943. In 1929, White coauthored with
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In 1949, White published ''Here Is New York'', a short book based on an article he had been commissioned to write for ''
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''. Editor
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approached White about writing the essay, telling him it would be fun. "Writing is never 'fun, White replied. That article reflects the writer's appreciation of a city that provides its residents with both "the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy." It concludes with a dark note touching on the forces that could destroy the city that he loved. This prescient "love letter" to the city was re-published in 1999 on his centennial with an introduction by his stepson,
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. In 1959, White edited and updated ''
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''. This handbook of grammatical and stylistic guidance for writers of
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was first written and published in 1918 by William Strunk Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell. White's reworking of the book was extremely well received, and later editions followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999. Maira Kalman illustrated an edition in 2005. That same year,
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, a New York City composer, premiered a short opera based on the book. The volume is a standard tool for students and writers and remains required reading in many composition classes. The complete history of ''The Elements of Style ''is detailed in Mark Garvey's ''Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style''. In 1978, White was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize, citing "his letters, essays and the full body of his work"."Special Awards and Citations"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
He also received the
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in 1963 and honorary memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United States. The 1973 Oscar-nominated Canadian animated short '' The Family That Dwelt Apart'' was narrated by White and was based on his short story of the same name.


Children's books

In the late 1930s, White turned his hand to
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on behalf of a niece, Janice Hart White. His first children's book, ''
Stuart Little ''Stuart Little'' is a 1945 American children's novel by E. B. White. It was White's first children's book, and became recognized as a classic in children's literature. ''Stuart Little'' was illustrated by the artist Garth Williams, also his f ...
'', was published in 1945, and ''
Charlotte's Web ''Charlotte's Web'' is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams. It was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. It tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his frie ...
'' followed in 1952. ''Stuart Little'' initially received a lukewarm welcome from the literary community. However, both books went on to receive high acclaim, and ''Charlotte's Web'' won a
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from the
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, though it lost out on winning the Newbery Medal to '' Secret of the Andes'' by
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. White received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the U.S. professional children's librarians in 1970. It recognized his "substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature." That year, he was also the U.S. nominee and eventual runner-up for the biennial
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, as he was again in 1976. Also, in 1970, White's third children's novel was published, ''
The Trumpet of the Swan ''The Trumpet of the Swan'' is a children's novel by E. B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a trumpeter swan born without a voice who overcomes this difficulty by learning to play a trumpet in order to impress a beautifu ...
''. In 1973 it won the Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award from Kansas, both selected by students voting for their favorite book of the year. In 2012, the ''
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'' sponsored a survey of readers, which identified ''Charlotte's Web'' as the best children's novel ("fictional title for readers 8–12" years old). The librarian who conducted it said, "It is impossible to conduct a poll of this sort and expect hite's novelto be anywhere but #1."


Awards and honors

*1953
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for ''Charlotte's Web'' *1960 American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal *1963
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*1970 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award *1971 National Medal for Literature *1977 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, ''Letters of E. B. White'' *1978 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for Letters


Personal life

White was shy around women, claiming he had "too small a heart, too large a pen". But in 1929, after an affair that led to Katharine Angell's divorce, she and White were married. They had a son, Joel White, a naval architect and boat builder, who later owned Brooklin Boat Yard in
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. Katharine's son from her first marriage,
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, spent decades as a fiction editor for ''
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'' and was well known as the magazine's
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writer. In her foreword to ''
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'',
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quotes White as saying, "All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world." White also loved animals, farms and farming implements,
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, and
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formats.
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described White as a quiet man who disliked publicity and who, during his time at ''The New Yorker'', would slip out of his office via the fire escape to a nearby branch of Schrafft's to avoid visitors he didn't know: Later in life, White developed
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. He died on October 1, 1985, at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine. He is buried in the Brooklin Cemetery beside Katharine, who died in 1977.


Legacy

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. The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at
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Library holds the E. B. White Collection, an archive of manuscripts, letters, photographs, cassette tapes regarding E. B. White, including over 25,000 letters sent to him. For example, when Late Night show host
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reminisced about the return letter he received from E. B. White after writing him a letter at the age of 16, Cornell's Olin Library found that letter for him. During the 2025
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, O'Brien recalled that when he was told to evacuate, his wife asked what to grab, and he replied, "Just grab the E. B. White letter off the wall."


Bibliography


Books

*''Less than Nothing, or, The Life and Times of Sterling Finny'' (1927) * * *''Ho Hum: Newsbreaks from'' The New Yorker (1931). Intro by E. B. White, and much of the text as well. *''Alice Through the Cellophane'', John Day (1933) *''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!'' (
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, ''The New Yorker'') collaboration with Richard L. Strout *''The Fox of Peapack, and other poems'' (1938, Harper) *''Quo Vadimus: or The Case for the Bicycle'', Harper (1938) *'' A Subtreasury of American Humor'' (1941). Co-edited with Katharine S. White. *''One Man's Meat'' (1942): A collection of his columns from ''
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'' *''The Wild Flag: Editorials from ''The New Yorker'' on Federal World Government and Other Matters'' (1943) *''
Stuart Little ''Stuart Little'' is a 1945 American children's novel by E. B. White. It was White's first children's book, and became recognized as a classic in children's literature. ''Stuart Little'' was illustrated by the artist Garth Williams, also his f ...
'' (1945) *''Here Is New York'' (1949) *''
Charlotte's Web ''Charlotte's Web'' is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams. It was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. It tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his frie ...
'' (1952) *''The Second Tree from the Corner'' (
1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...
) *''
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'' (by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, revised and expanded by White in 1959) *''The Points of My Compass'' (1962) - letters *''
The Trumpet of the Swan ''The Trumpet of the Swan'' is a children's novel by E. B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a trumpeter swan born without a voice who overcomes this difficulty by learning to play a trumpet in order to impress a beautifu ...
'' (1970) *''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'' (
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, HarperCollins, ed. Rebecca M. Dale) *''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.


Essays and reporting

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References


External links


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