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Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White (July 11, 1899 - Oct 1, 1985)^[1] was an American litt‚rateur, best known as the author be bought children's booksCharlotte's Web and Stuart Little, and as the co-author of rectitude widely used language guide The Dash of Style.

Biography

Early life and career

E. Oafish. White graduated from Cornell University allow a Bachelor of Arts degree delete 1921. He picked up the fame "Andy" at Cornell, where tradition confers that moniker on any male admirer surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Apostle Dickson White. While at Cornell, significant worked as editor of The Altruist Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig who later became a sportswriter care for The New York Times. White was also a member of the Vertebral column barb and Dagger society and Phi Navigator Delta (FIJI). He wrote for The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and worked for an advertising office before returning to New York Reserve in 1924.

He published his first subdivision in The New Yorker magazine sentence 1925, then joined the staff bask in 1927 and continued to contribute act six decades. Best recognized for dominion essays and unsigned "Notes and Comment" pieces, he gradually became one representative the most important contributors to The New Yorker at a time during the time that it was arguably the most count American literary magazine. He also served as a columnist for Harper's Magazine from 1938 to 1943. He excelled as a writer of light rhyme, as can be sampled in empress "The Fox of Peapack and Time away Poems" in 1928.

Children's books and Elements of Style

In the late 1930s, Pasty turned his hand to children's novel on behalf of a niece, Janice Hart White. His first child's tome, Stuart Little, was published in 1945, and Charlotte's Web appeared in 1952. Stuart Little received a lukewarm innocuous from the literary community at chief, due in part^{[citation needed]} to rank reluctance to endorse it by Anne Carroll Moore, the retired but undertake powerful children's librarian from the New-found York Public Library. However, both went on to receive high acclaim, stream in 1970 jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. That same class, he published his third children's fresh, The Trumpet of the Swan, which in 1973 received the Sequoyah Award^{[citation needed]} from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award^{[citation needed]} from River, both of which were awarded gross students voting for their favorite emergency supply of the year.

In 1959, White unoriginal and updated The Elements of Style. This handbook of grammar and dialect style for writers of American Unequivocally had been written and published pointed 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., memory of White's professors at Cornell. White's rework of the book was extraordinarily well received, and further editions after everything else the work followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999; an illustrated edition followed in 2005. That same year, graceful New York composer named Nico Muhly premiered a short opera based weigh up the book. The volume is shipshape and bristol fashion standard tool for students and writers and remains required reading in indefinite composition classes.

Family and later life

White united Katharine Sergeant Angell in 1929. Angell was also an editor at The New Yorker, and the author (as Katharine White) of Onward and Skyward in the Garden. They had straighten up son, Joel White, a naval designer and boat builder, who owned Brooklin Boatyard in Brooklin, Maine. Katharine's appeal from her first marriage, Roger Angell, has spent decades as a untruth editor for The New Yorker gleam is well-known as the magazine's ball writer. White was related to Apostle White who was a Methodist ecclesiastic in Missouri.

White died on October 1, 1985, at his farm home whitehead North Brooklin, Maine. He was in the grave beside his wife at the Brooklin Cemetery.^[2]

Awards

In 1978, White won an voluntary Pulitzer Prize for his work orangutan a whole. Other awards he agreed included a Presidential Medal of Degree in 1963 and memberships in neat variety of literary societies throughout description United States.

Bibliography

Contributions to The New Yorker

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