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B. White – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin_Bruks_Vayt" title="Elvin Bruks Vayt – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Elvin Bruks Vayt" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95._%D0%91._%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82" title="Е. Б. Уайт – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Е. Б. Уайт" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_Brooks_White" title="Elwyn Brooks White – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Elwyn Brooks White" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_Brooks_White" title="Elwyn Brooks White – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Elwyn Brooks White" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_Brooks_White" title="Elwyn Brooks White – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Elwyn Brooks White" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%8C.%D8%A8%DB%8C._%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA" title="ئی.بی. وایت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ئی.بی. وایت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%98%EC%9C%88_%EB%B8%8C%EB%A3%A9%EC%8A%A4_%ED%99%94%EC%9D%B4%ED%8A%B8" title="엘윈 브룩스 화이트 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="엘윈 브룩스 화이트" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%AC%D5%BE%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D4%B2%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%84%D5%BD_%D5%88%D6%82%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A9" title="Էլվին Բրուքս Ուայթ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Էլվին Բրուքս Ուայթ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_Brooks_White" title="Elwyn Brooks White – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Elwyn Brooks White" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A1_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98" title="אלוין ברוקס וייט – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אלוין ברוקס וייט" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_Brooks_White" title="Elwyn Brooks White – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Elwyn Brooks White" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%91%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82" title="Элвин Брукс Уайт – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Элвин Брукс Уайт" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%91._%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%98%D1%82" title="Елвин Б. Вајт – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Елвин Б. Вајт" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%87.%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF._%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D" title="ഇ.ബി. വൈറ്റ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഇ.ബി. വൈറ്റ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%89._%D8%A8%D9%89._%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA" title="اى. بى. وايت – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="اى. بى. وايت" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.B._White" title="E.B. White – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="E.B. White" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%E3%83%BBB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88" title="E・B・ホワイト – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="E・B・ホワイト" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.B._White" title="E.B. White – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="E.B. White" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.B._White" title="E.B. White – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="E.B. White" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82,_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%91%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%81" title="Уайт, Элвин Брукс – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Уайт, Элвин Брукс" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="E. B. White" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.B._White" title="E.B. White – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="E.B. 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White</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:EB_White_and_his_dog_Minnie.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/EB_White_and_his_dog_Minnie.png/220px-EB_White_and_his_dog_Minnie.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="388" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/EB_White_and_his_dog_Minnie.png/330px-EB_White_and_his_dog_Minnie.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/EB_White_and_his_dog_Minnie.png 2x" data-file-width="405" data-file-height="714" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">White on the beach with his <a href="/wiki/Dachshund" title="Dachshund">dachshund</a> Minnie</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Elwyn Brooks White</div><br />July 11, 1899<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon,_New_York" title="Mount Vernon, New York">Mount Vernon, New York</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">October 1, 1985<span style="display:none">(1985-10-01)</span> (aged 86)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Brooklin,_Maine" title="Brooklin, Maine">Brooklin, Maine</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label">Brooklin Cemetery, Brooklin, Maine, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Writer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Katharine_Sergeant_Angell_White" title="Katharine Sergeant Angell White">Katharine Sergeant</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1929; died 1977)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joel_White" title="Joel White">Joel White</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:EB_White_Signature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/EB_White_Signature.svg/150px-EB_White_Signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="55" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/EB_White_Signature.svg/225px-EB_White_Signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/EB_White_Signature.svg/300px-EB_White_Signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="162" data-file-height="59" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Elwyn Brooks White</b> (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)<sup id="cite_ref-New_York_Times_Obituary_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_York_Times_Obituary-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including <i><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Little" title="Stuart Little">Stuart Little</a></i> (1945), <i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web" title="Charlotte's Web">Charlotte's Web</a></i> (1952), and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Trumpet_of_the_Swan" title="The Trumpet of the Swan">The Trumpet of the Swan</a></i> (1970). </p><p>In a 2012 survey of <i><a href="/wiki/School_Library_Journal" title="School Library Journal">School Library Journal</a></i> readers, <i>Charlotte's Web</i> was ranked first in their poll of the top one hundred children's novels.<sup id="cite_ref-SLJ_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SLJ-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> White also was a contributing editor to <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> magazine and co-author of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style" title="The Elements of Style">The Elements of Style</a></i>, an <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English language</a> <a href="/wiki/Style_guide" title="Style guide">style guide</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a> called White "one of the most admirable prose stylists our country has so far produced."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life,_family_and_education"><span id="Early_life.2C_family_and_education"></span>Early life, family and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._B._White&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life, family and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>White was born in <a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon,_New_York" title="Mount Vernon, New York">Mount Vernon, New York</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Scottish-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish-American">Scottish-American</a> painter <a href="/wiki/William_Hart_(painter)" title="William Hart (painter)">William Hart</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elwyn's older brother <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Hart_White" title="Stanley Hart White">Stanley Hart White</a>, known as Stan, a professor of <a href="/wiki/Landscape_architecture" title="Landscape architecture">landscape architecture</a> and the inventor of the <a href="/wiki/Green_wall" title="Green wall">vertical garden</a>, taught E.B. White to read and explore the natural world.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>White attended <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a>, where he was briefly a private in the Student Army Training Corps (SATC), created by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War" title="United States Department of War">US Department of War</a> in 1918 to hasten the training of US soldiers for <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-encyclopediacom_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encyclopediacom-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-beacham_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beacham-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1921, White graduated from Cornell University with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts_degree" class="mw-redirect" title="Bachelor of Arts degree">Bachelor of Arts degree</a>. At Cornell, he obtained the nickname "Andy", where tradition confers that moniker on any male student whose surname is White after Cornell co-founder <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Dickson_White" title="Andrew Dickson White">Andrew Dickson White</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked as editor of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cornell_Daily_Sun" title="The Cornell Daily Sun">The Cornell Daily Sun</a></i> with classmate <a href="/wiki/Allison_Danzig" title="Allison Danzig">Allison Danzig</a>, who later became a sportswriter for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. As a Cornell University student, White was a member of <a href="/wiki/Aleph_Samach" title="Aleph Samach">Aleph Samach</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Quill_and_Dagger" title="Quill and Dagger">Quill and Dagger</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Town_&_Country_2016_x410_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Town_&_Country_2016_x410-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Digital_Magazine_of_Cornell_Alumni_2017_j328_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Digital_Magazine_of_Cornell_Alumni_2017_j328-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Phi_Gamma_Delta" title="Phi Gamma Delta">Phi Gamma Delta</a> fraternity.<sup id="cite_ref-Cornell_Chronicle_2013_q099_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cornell_Chronicle_2013_q099-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Epstein_1986_t387_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Epstein_1986_t387-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._B._White&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:E_B_White.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/E_B_White.jpg" decoding="async" width="199" height="318" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="199" data-file-height="318" /></a><figcaption>White in his 20s</figcaption></figure> <p>After graduating from Cornell, White went to work for the United Press, later <a href="/wiki/United_Press_International" title="United Press International">United Press International</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/American_Legion" title="American Legion">American Legion</a> News Service in 1921 and 1922. From September 1922 to June 1923, he was a cub reporter for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Seattle_Times" title="The Seattle Times">The Seattle Times</a></i>. On one occasion, when White was stuck writing a story, a <i>Times</i> editor said, "Just say the words."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>White was fired from the <i>Times</i> and later wrote for the rival <i><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Post-Intelligencer" title="Seattle Post-Intelligencer">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</a></i> before a stint in <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a> on a fireboat.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then worked for almost two years with the Frank Seaman advertising agency as a production assistant and copywriter<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before returning to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> in 1924. </p><p>In 1925, after <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> was founded, White began submitting manuscripts to the magazine. <a href="/wiki/Katharine_Sergeant_Angell_White" title="Katharine Sergeant Angell White">Katharine Angell</a>, the literary editor, recommended to editor-in-chief and founder <a href="/wiki/Harold_Ross" title="Harold Ross">Harold Ross</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>White published his first article for <i>The New Yorker</i> 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 <i>The New Yorker,</i> 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 <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper's Magazine</a></i> from 1938 to 1943. </p><p>In 1929, White coauthored with <a href="/wiki/James_Thurber" title="James Thurber">James Thurber</a> on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/issexnecessary0000unse_u2j1/page/n5/mode/2up?q=Is+Sex+Necessary%3F">Is Sex Necessary?</a> In 1949, White published <i>Here Is New York</i>, a short book based on an article he had been commissioned to write for <i><a href="/wiki/Holiday_(magazine)" title="Holiday (magazine)">Holiday</a></i>. Editor <a href="/wiki/Ted_Patrick_(editor)" title="Ted Patrick (editor)">Ted Patrick</a> approached White about writing the essay, telling him it would be fun. "Writing is never 'fun'", White replied.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Angell" title="Roger Angell">Roger Angell</a>. </p><p>In 1959, White edited and updated <i><a href="/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style" title="The Elements of Style">The Elements of Style</a></i>. This handbook of grammatical and stylistic guidance for writers of <a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American English</a> was first written and published in 1918 by <a href="/wiki/William_Strunk_Jr." title="William Strunk Jr.">William Strunk Jr.</a>, 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. <a href="/wiki/Maira_Kalman" title="Maira Kalman">Maira Kalman</a> illustrated an edition in 2005. That same year, <a href="/wiki/Nico_Muhly" title="Nico Muhly">Nico Muhly</a>, 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 <i>The Elements of Style </i>is detailed in Mark Garvey's <i>Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style</i>. </p><p>In 1978, White was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_Special_Citations_and_Awards" title="Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards">special Pulitzer Prize</a>, citing "his letters, essays and the full body of his work".<sup id="cite_ref-pulitzer_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pulitzer-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also received the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 1963 and honorary memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United States. The 1973 <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Short_Film" title="Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film">Oscar-nominated</a> Canadian animated <a href="/wiki/Short_film" title="Short film">short</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Family_That_Dwelt_Apart" title="The Family That Dwelt Apart">The Family That Dwelt Apart</a></i> was narrated by White and was based on his short story of the same name.<sup id="cite_ref-Collection_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collection-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Children's_books"><span id="Children.27s_books"></span>Children's books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._B._White&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Children's books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the late 1930s, White turned his hand to <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_literature" title="Children's literature">children's fiction</a> on behalf of a niece, Janice Hart White. His first children's book, <i><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Little" title="Stuart Little">Stuart Little</a></i>, was published in 1945, and <i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web" title="Charlotte's Web">Charlotte's Web</a></i> followed in 1952. <i>Stuart Little</i> initially received a lukewarm welcome from the literary community. However, both books went on to receive high acclaim, and <i>Charlotte's Web</i> won a <a href="/wiki/Newbery_Medal" title="Newbery Medal">Newbery Honor</a> from the <a href="/wiki/American_Library_Association" title="American Library Association">American Library Association</a>, though it lost out on winning the Newbery Medal to <i><a href="/wiki/Secret_of_the_Andes_(novel)" title="Secret of the Andes (novel)">Secret of the Andes</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ann_Nolan_Clark" title="Ann Nolan Clark">Ann Nolan Clark</a>. </p><p>White received the <a href="/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal">Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal</a> from the U.S. professional children's librarians in 1970. It recognized his "substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature."<sup id="cite_ref-wilder_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wilder-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That year, he was also the U.S. nominee and eventual runner-up for the biennial <a href="/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen_Award" title="Hans Christian Andersen Award">Hans Christian Andersen Award</a>, as he was again in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-weales_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weales-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ibby-nominee_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ibby-nominee-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, in 1970, White's third children's novel was published, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Trumpet_of_the_Swan" title="The Trumpet of the Swan">The Trumpet of the Swan</a></i>. In 1973 it won the Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma and the <a href="/wiki/William_Allen_White_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="William Allen White Award">William Allen White Award</a> from Kansas, both selected by students voting for their favorite book of the year. In 2012, the <i><a href="/wiki/School_Library_Journal" title="School Library Journal">School Library Journal</a></i> sponsored a survey of readers, which identified <i>Charlotte's Web</i> 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 [White's novel] to be anywhere but #1."<sup id="cite_ref-SLJ_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SLJ-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bird_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bird-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._B._White&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1953 <a href="/wiki/Newbery_Medal" title="Newbery Medal">Newbery Honor</a> for <i>Charlotte's Web</i></li> <li>1960 <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters_Gold_Medals" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals">American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal</a></li> <li>1963 <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a></li> <li>1970 <a href="/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Laura Ingalls Wilder Award">Laura Ingalls Wilder Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-wilder_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wilder-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1971 <a href="/wiki/National_Medal_for_Literature" title="National Medal for Literature">National Medal for Literature</a></li> <li>1977 <a href="/wiki/L._L._Winship/PEN_New_England_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award">L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award</a>, <i>Letters of E.B. White</i></li> <li>1978 <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_Special_Citations_and_Awards" title="Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards">Pulitzer Prize Special Citation</a> for Letters<sup id="cite_ref-pulitzer_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pulitzer-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._B._White&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>White was shy around women, claiming he had "too small a heart, too large a pen".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But in 1929, after an affair that led to <a href="/wiki/Katharine_Sergeant_Angell_White" title="Katharine Sergeant Angell White">Katharine Angell</a>'s divorce, she and White were married. They had a son, <a href="/wiki/Joel_White" title="Joel White">Joel White</a>, a naval architect and boat builder, who later owned Brooklin Boat Yard in <a href="/wiki/Brooklin,_Maine" title="Brooklin, Maine">Brooklin, Maine</a>. Katharine's son from her first marriage, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Angell" title="Roger Angell">Roger Angell</a>, spent decades as a fiction editor for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> and was well known as the magazine's <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> writer.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In her foreword to <i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web" title="Charlotte's Web">Charlotte's Web</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Kate_DiCamillo" title="Kate DiCamillo">Kate DiCamillo</a> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> White also loved animals, farms and farming implements, <a href="/wiki/Seasons" class="mw-redirect" title="Seasons">seasons</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Weather" title="Weather">weather</a> formats.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <p><a href="/wiki/James_Thurber" title="James Thurber">James Thurber</a> described White as a quiet man who disliked publicity and who, during his time at <i>The New Yorker</i>, would slip out of his office via the fire escape to a nearby branch of <a href="/wiki/Schrafft%27s_(restaurant_chain)" title="Schrafft's (restaurant chain)">Schrafft's</a> to avoid visitors he didn't know: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Most of us, out of a politeness made up of faint curiosity and profound resignation, go out to meet the smiling stranger with a gesture of surrender and a fixed grin, but White has always taken to the fire escape. He has avoided the Man in the Reception Room as he has avoided the interviewer, the photographer, the microphone, the rostrum, the literary tea, and the <a href="/wiki/Stork_Club" title="Stork Club">Stork Club</a>. His life is his own. He is the only writer of prominence I know of who could walk through <a href="/wiki/Algonquin_Hotel" title="Algonquin Hotel">the Algonquin</a> lobby or between the tables at Jack and Charlie's and be recognized only by his friends.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>James Thurber, E.B.W., "Credos and Curios"</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Later in life, White developed <a href="/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease" title="Alzheimer's disease">Alzheimer's disease</a>. He died on October 1, 1985, at his <a href="/wiki/E.B._White_House" class="mw-redirect" title="E.B. White House">farm home</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brooklin,_Maine" title="Brooklin, Maine">North Brooklin, Maine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-New_York_Times_Obituary_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_York_Times_Obituary-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is buried in the Brooklin Cemetery beside Katharine, who died in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._B._White&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/E._B._White_Read_Aloud_Award" title="E. B. White Read Aloud Award">E. B. White Read Aloud Award</a> is given by <a href="/wiki/The_Association_of_Booksellers_for_Children" class="mw-redirect" title="The Association of Booksellers for Children">The Association of Booksellers for Children</a> (ABC) to honor books that its membership feel embodies the universal read-aloud standards that E.B. White's works created. </p><p>The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, when Late Night show host <a href="/wiki/Conan_O%27Brien" title="Conan O'Brien">Conan O'Brien</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 2025 <a href="/wiki/Palisades_Fire" title="Palisades Fire">Palisades Fire</a>, 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."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._B._White&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._B._White&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Less than Nothing, or, The Life and Times of Sterling Finny</i> (1927)<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWhite,_E._B.1929" class="citation book cs1">White, E. B. (1929). <i>The Lady Is Cold: poems by E.B.W</i>. New York: Harper and Brothers.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Lady+Is+Cold%3A+poems+by+E.B.W.&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Harper+and+Brothers&rft.date=1929&rft.au=White%2C+E.+B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE.+B.+White" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThurberWhite1929" class="citation book cs1">Thurber, James; White, E. B. (1929). <a href="/wiki/Is_Sex_Necessary%3F_Or,_Why_You_Feel_the_Way_You_Do" title="Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do"><i>Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do</i></a>. New York: Harper & Brothers. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/29027938">29027938</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Is+Sex+Necessary%3F+Or%2C+Why+You+Feel+the+Way+You+Do&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Harper+%26+Brothers&rft.date=1929&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F29027938&rft.aulast=Thurber&rft.aufirst=James&rft.au=White%2C+E.+B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE.+B.+White" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><i>Ho Hum: Newsbreaks from</i> The New Yorker (1931). Intro by E. B. White, and much of the text as well.</li> <li><i>Alice Through the Cellophane</i>, <a href="/wiki/John_Day_Company" title="John Day Company">John Day</a> (1933)</li> <li><i>Every Day Is Saturday</i>, Harper (1934)</li> <li><i>Farewell to Model T</i> (1936, G P Putnam's Sons) - originally published under pseudonym Lee Strout White as <i>Farewell, My Lovely!</i> (<a href="//archive.org/details/thesecondtreefro0000unse" class="extiw" title="iarchive:thesecondtreefro0000unse">1936</a>, <i>The New Yorker</i>) collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Richard_Strout" title="Richard Strout">Richard L. Strout</a></li> <li><i>The Fox of Peapack, and other poems</i> (1938, Harper)</li> <li><i>Quo Vadimus: or The Case for the Bicycle</i>, Harper (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Subtreasury_of_American_Humor" title="A Subtreasury of American Humor">A Subtreasury of American Humor</a></i> (1941). Co-edited with Katherine S. White.</li> <li><i>One Man's Meat</i> (1942): A collection of his columns from <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper's Magazine</a></i></li> <li><i>The Wild Flag: Editorials from </i>The New Yorker<i> on Federal World Government and Other Matters</i> (1943)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Little" title="Stuart Little">Stuart Little</a></i> (1945)</li> <li><i>Here Is New York</i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web" title="Charlotte's Web">Charlotte's Web</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i>The Second Tree from the Corner</i> (<a href="//archive.org/details/thesecondtreefro0000unse" class="extiw" title="iarchive:thesecondtreefro0000unse">1954</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style" title="The Elements of Style">The Elements of Style</a></i> (by <a href="/wiki/William_Strunk_Jr." title="William Strunk Jr.">William Strunk Jr.</a> in 1918, revised and expanded by White in 1959)</li> <li><i>The Points of My Compass</i> (1962) - letters</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Trumpet_of_the_Swan" title="The Trumpet of the Swan">The Trumpet of the Swan</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i>Letters of E. B. White</i> (1976)</li> <li><i>Essays of E. B. White</i> (1977)</li> <li><i>Poems and Sketches of E. B. White</i> (1981)</li> <li><i>Writings from </i>The New Yorker<i> 1925-1976</i> (<a href="//archive.org/details/writingsfromnewy00whit" class="extiw" title="iarchive:writingsfromnewy00whit">1990</a>, HarperCollins, ed. Rebecca M. Dale)</li> <li><i>Farewell to Model T / From Sea to Shining Sea</i> (2003, Little Bookroom)</li> <li><i>In the Words of E. B. White</i> (2011)</li> <li><i>An E. B. White Reader</i>. Edited by William W. Watt and Robert W. Bradford.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Essays_and_reporting">Essays and reporting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._B._White&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Essays and reporting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFE.B.W.1925" class="citation magazine cs1">E.B.W. (April 18, 1925). "A Step Forward". <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>. Vol. 1, no. 9. p. 21.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=A+Step+Forward&rft.volume=1&rft.issue=9&rft.pages=21&rft.date=1925-04-18&rft.au=E.B.W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE.+B.+White" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFE.B.W.1925" class="citation magazine cs1">— (May 9, 1925). "Defense of the Bronx River". <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol. 1, no. 12. p. 14.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Defense+of+the+Bronx+River&rft.volume=1&rft.issue=12&rft.pages=14&rft.date=1925-05-09&rft.au=E.B.W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE.+B.+White" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFE.B.W.1941" class="citation magazine cs1">— (1941). "<a href="/wiki/Once_More_to_the_Lake" title="Once More to the Lake">Once More to the Lake</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper's Magazine</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Harper%27s+Magazine&rft.atitle=Once+More+to+the+Lake&rft.date=1941&rft.au=E.B.W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AE.+B.+White" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E._B._White&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em ;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-New_York_Times_Obituary-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-New_York_Times_Obituary_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-New_York_Times_Obituary_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMitgang1985" class="citation news cs1">Mitgang, Herbert (October 2, 1985). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/02/books/eb-white-essayist-and-stylist-dies.html">"E.B. 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Sulzberger</a>/<a href="/wiki/Arthur_Krock" title="Arthur Krock">Arthur Krock</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Kase" title="Max Kase">Max Kase</a>/<i><a href="/wiki/The_Kansas_City_Star" title="The Kansas City Star">The Kansas City Star</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Lippmann" title="Walter Lippmann">Walter Lippmann</a> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gannett_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Gannett Company">Gannett Newspapers</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lee_Strout" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Lee Strout">Richard Lee Strout</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herb_Caen" title="Herb Caen">Herb Caen</a> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Capital_Gazette" title="Capital Gazette">Capital Gazette</a></i> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ida_B._Wells" title="Ida B. Wells">Ida B. Wells</a> (2020, posthumous)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darnella_Frazier" title="Darnella Frazier">Darnella Frazier</a> (2021)</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="4" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png/60px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png/90px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png/120px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_obverse.png 2x" data-file-width="1114" data-file-height="1110" /></a></span><br /><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png/60px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png/90px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png/120px-Pulitzer_Medal_-_reverse.png 2x" data-file-width="1115" data-file-height="1101" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Letters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Love Songs</i> by <a href="/wiki/Sara_Teasdale" title="Sara Teasdale">Sara Teasdale</a> (1918)</li> <li><i>Corn Huskers</i> by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Sandburg" title="Carl Sandburg">Carl Sandburg</a>/<i>Old Road to Paradise</i> by <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Widdemer" title="Margaret Widdemer">Margaret Widdemer</a> (1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Roberts_(author)" title="Kenneth Roberts (author)">Kenneth Roberts</a> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Defeat_of_the_Spanish_Armada" class="mw-redirect" title="The Defeat of the Spanish Armada">The Defeat of the Spanish Armada</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Garrett_Mattingly" title="Garrett Mattingly">Garrett Mattingly</a> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=American_Heritage_Picture_History_of_the_Civil_War&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (page does not exist)">American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i>George Washington, Vols. I-IV</i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Flexner" title="James Thomas Flexner">James Thomas Flexner</a> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roots:_The_Saga_of_an_American_Family" title="Roots: The Saga of an American Family">Roots</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alex_Haley" title="Alex Haley">Alex Haley</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/E.B._White" class="mw-redirect" title="E.B. White">E.B. White</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._Seuss" title="Dr. Seuss">Theodor Seuss Geisel</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Art_Spiegelman" title="Art Spiegelman">Art Spiegelman</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/Maus" title="Maus">Maus</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_S._Morgan" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund S. Morgan">Edmund S. Morgan</a> (2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Arts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Rodgers" title="Richard Rodgers">Richard Rodgers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Hammerstein_II" title="Oscar Hammerstein II">Oscar Hammerstein II</a>. A special award for <i><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_(musical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oklahoma (musical)">Oklahoma!</a></i> (1944)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Sessions" title="Roger Sessions">Roger Sessions</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Joplin" title="Scott Joplin">Scott Joplin</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton_Babbitt" title="Milton Babbitt">Milton Babbitt</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Schuman" title="William Schuman">William Schuman</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Gershwin" title="George Gershwin">George Gershwin</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Williams" title="Hank Williams">Hank Williams</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aretha_Franklin" title="Aretha Franklin">Aretha Franklin</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Service</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Allen_White" title="William Allen White">William Allen White</a>* (1944)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University_Graduate_School_of_Journalism" title="Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism">Graduate School of Journalism</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_D._Fackenthal" title="Frank D. Fackenthal">Frank D. Fackenthal</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hohenberg" title="John Hohenberg">John Hohenberg</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.">Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.</a> (1985)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div>* indicates award given to widow in year after his death</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="E._B._White&#039;s_Charlotte&#039;s_Web_(1952)58" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Charlotte%27s_Web" title="Template:Charlotte's Web"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Charlotte%27s_Web" title="Template talk:Charlotte's Web"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Charlotte%27s_Web" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Charlotte's Web"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="E._B._White&#039;s_Charlotte&#039;s_Web_(1952)58" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">E. B. White</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web" title="Charlotte's Web">Charlotte's Web</a></i> (1952)</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web_(1973_film)" title="Charlotte's Web (1973 film)">Charlotte's Web</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web_2:_Wilbur%27s_Great_Adventure" title="Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure">Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web_(2006_film)" title="Charlotte's Web (2006 film)">Charlotte's Web</a></i> (2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web_(video_game)" title="Charlotte's Web (video game)"><i>Charlotte's Web</i> (video game)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web_(musical)" title="Charlotte's Web (musical)"><i>Charlotte's Web</i> (musical)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="E._B._White&#039;s_Stuart_Little_(1945)153" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Stuart_Little" title="Template:Stuart Little"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Stuart_Little" title="Template talk:Stuart Little"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Stuart_Little" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Stuart Little"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="E._B._White&#039;s_Stuart_Little_(1945)153" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">E. 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White</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Little" title="Stuart Little">Stuart Little</a></i> (1945)</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Little_(franchise)" title="Stuart Little (franchise)">Franchise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Stuart_Little_characters" title="List of Stuart Little characters">Characters</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Little_(film)" title="Stuart Little (film)">Stuart Little</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Little_2" title="Stuart Little 2">Stuart Little 2</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Little_3:_Call_of_the_Wild" title="Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild">Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild</a></i> (2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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