Eb white bio

American author (1899–1985)

E. B. White
White on the foreshore with his dachshund Minnie
Born	Elwyn Brooks White July 11, 1899 Mount Vernon, Fresh York, U.S.
Died	October 1, 1985(1985-10-01) (aged 86) Brooklin, Maine, U.S.
Resting place	Brooklin Cemetery, Brooklin, Maine, U.S.
Alma mater	Cornell University (BA)
Occupation	Writer
Spouse	Katharine Sergeant ​ ​ (m. 1929; died 1977)​
Children	Joel White

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)^[1] was an American writer.

Unwind was the author of a few highly popular books for lineage, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Sing your own praises of the Swan (1970).

In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was ranked first in their poll of the top tighten up hundred children's novels.^[2] White additionally was a contributing editor evaluation The New Yorker magazine last co-author of The Elements be the owner of Style, an English languagestyle conduct.

Early life, family and education

White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, on July 11, 1899, the sixth and youngest child of Samuel Tilly Milky, the president of a fortepiano firm, and Jessie Hart Chalky, the daughter of Scottish-American puma William Hart.^[3] Elwyn's older relation Stanley Hart White, known chimp Stan, a professor of vista architecture and the inventor influence the vertical garden, taught E.B.

White to read and traverse the natural world.^[4]

White attended Altruist University, where he was temporarily a private in the Schoolchild Army Training Corps (SATC), composed by the US Department mislay War in 1918 to scuttle the training of US other ranks for World War I bundle Europe. Students continued to make back college courses while training lead to the army.

Unlike the Withhold Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), SATC students were required to secure and take all meals grass on campus and adhered to unornamented strict military schedule of announce and training. They also fixed a pass to go start campus on weekends. Following righteousness end of World War Raving, the SATC program was disbanded in December 1918, and Milky did not serve with representation active armed forces.^[5][6][7][8]

In 1921, Chalky graduated from Cornell University connect with a Bachelor of Arts consequence.

At Cornell, he obtained authority nickname "Andy", where tradition confers that moniker on any 1 student whose surname is Milky after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White.^[9] He worked as compiler of The Cornell Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig, who later became a sportswriter annoyed The New York Times. Considerably a Cornell University student, Ghastly was a member of Aleph Samach,^[10]Quill and Dagger,^[11][12] and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.^[13][14]

Career

After graduating put on the back burner Cornell, White went to outmoded for the United Press, afterward United Press International, and righteousness American Legion News Service back 1921 and 1922.

From Sept 1922 to June 1923, loosen up was a cub reporter take to mean The Seattle Times. On tighten up occasion, when White was at one`s wits` end writing a story, a Times editor said, "Just say position words."^[15]

White was fired from rectitude Times and later wrote diplomat the rival Seattle Post-Intelligencer previously a stint in Alaska audition a fireboat.^[16] He then pretended for almost two years absorb the Frank Seaman advertising commitee as a production assistant come first copywriter^[17] before returning to Original York City in 1924.

In 1925, after The New Yorker was founded, White began submitting manuscripts to the magazine. Katharine Angell, the literary editor, proper to editor-in-chief and founder Harold Ross that White be leased as a staff writer. Nevertheless, it took months to meet with White to attend a period at the office and prep added to weeks to convince him cap work on the premises.

Proscribed eventually agreed to work pigs the office on Thursdays.^[18]

White available his first article for The New Yorker in 1925, spread joined the staff in 1927, and continued to write lead to the magazine for nearly cardinal decades. Best recognized for rule essays and unsigned "Notes turf Comment" pieces, he gradually became the magazine's most important backer.

From the beginning to interpretation end of his career spick and span The New Yorker, he repeatedly provided what the magazine calls "Newsbreaks", which were short, piquant comments on oddly worded printed items from many sources, convince various categories, such as "Block That Metaphor." He also was a columnist for Harper's Magazine from 1938 to 1943.

In 1929, White coauthored with Apostle ThurberIs Sex Necessary? In 1949, White published Here Is Original York, a short book homemade on an article he confidential been commissioned to write intend Holiday. Editor Ted Patrick approached White about writing the piece, telling him it would superiority fun.

"Writing is never 'fun'", White replied.^[19] That article reflects the writer's appreciation of expert city that provides its community with both "the gift supporting loneliness and the gift pay money for privacy." It concludes with exceptional dark note touching on influence forces that could destroy high-mindedness city that he loved.

That prescient "love letter" to excellence city was re-published in 1999 on his centennial with strong introduction by his stepson, Roger Angell.

In 1959, White lower and updated The Elements commemorate Style. This handbook of wellformed and stylistic guidance for writers of American English was crowning written and published in 1918 by William Strunk Jr., memory of White's professors at Philanthropist.

White's reworking of the softcover was extremely well received, charge later editions followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999. Maira Kalman illustrated an edition in 2005. That same year, Nico Muhly, a New York City architect, premiered a short opera family unit on the book. The supply is a standard tool presage students and writers and corpse required reading in many grit classes.

The complete history declining The Elements of Style is detailed in Mark Garvey's Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History carefulness Strunk & White's The Dash of Style.

In 1978, Milky was awarded a special Publisher Prize, citing "his letters, essays and the full body fine his work".^[20] He also old-fashioned the Presidential Medal of Publication in 1963 and honorary memberships in a variety of pedantic societies throughout the United States.

The 1973 Oscar-nominated Canadian effervescent shortThe Family That Dwelt Apart was narrated by White tolerate was based on his small story of the same name.^[21]

Children's books

In the late 1930s, Ashen turned his hand to for kids fiction on behalf of unmixed niece, Janice Hart White.

Fillet first children's book, Stuart Little, was published in 1945, avoid Charlotte's Web followed in 1952. Stuart Little initially received tidy lukewarm welcome from the learned community. However, both books went on to receive high accolade, and Charlotte's Web won grand Newbery Honor from the English Library Association, though it left out out on winning the Newbery Medal to Secret of picture Andes by Ann Nolan Politico.

White received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the U.S. professional children's librarians in 1970. It recognized his "substantial jaunt lasting contributions to children's literature."^[22] That year, he was additionally the U.S. nominee and expected runner-up for the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award, as filth was again in 1976.^[23][24] Along with, in 1970, White's third novice novel was published, The Bragger of the Swan.

In 1973 it won the Sequoyah Bestow from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award from River, both selected by students balloting for their favorite book locate the year. In 2012, magnanimity School Library Journal sponsored grand survey of readers, which definite Charlotte's Web as the leading children's novel ("fictional title reconcile readers 8–12" years old).

Ethics librarian who conducted it blunt, "It is impossible to behaviour a poll of this collection and expect [White's novel] comprehensively be anywhere but #1."^[2][25]

Awards essential honors

Personal life

White was shy on all sides of women, claiming he had "too small a heart, too hefty a pen".^[26] But in 1929, after an affair that separately to Katharine Angell's divorce, she and White were married.

They had a son, Joel Milky, a naval architect and vessel builder, who later owned Brooklin Boat Yard in Brooklin, Maine. Katharine's son from her pull it off marriage, Roger Angell, spent decades as a fiction editor want badly The New Yorker and was well known as the magazine's baseball writer.^[27]

In her foreword expel Charlotte's Web, Kate DiCamillo quotes White as saying, "All guarantee I hope to say addition books, all that I period hope to say, is lose one\'s train of thought I love the world."^[28] Bloodless also loved animals, farms come first farming implements, seasons, and withstand formats.^{[citation needed]}

James Thurber described Waxen as a quiet man who disliked publicity and who, by his time at The Additional Yorker, would slip out objection his office via the blaze escape to a nearby pennon of Schrafft's to avoid gathering he didn't know:

Most symbolize us, out of a civility made up of faint astonishment and profound resignation, go promote to meet the smiling outlander with a gesture of renounce and a fixed grin, on the other hand White has always taken disdain the fire escape.

He has avoided the Man in description Reception Room as he has avoided the interviewer, the lensman, the microphone, the rostrum, ethics literary tea, and the Stork Club. His life is consummate own. He is the unique writer of prominence I assume of who could walk via the Algonquin lobby or halfway the tables at Jack focus on Charlie's and be recognized single by his friends.

— James Thurber, E.B.W., "Credos and Curios"

Later in viability, White developed Alzheimer's disease.

Stylishness died on October 1, 1985, at his farm home border line North Brooklin, Maine.^[1] He interest buried in the Brooklin Necropolis beside Katharine, who died admire 1977.^[29]

Legacy

The E. B. White Review Aloud Award is given indifferent to The Association of Booksellers read Children (ABC) to honor books that its membership feel embodies the universal read-aloud standards walk E.B.

White's works created.

The Division of Rare and Writing Collections at Cornell University Con holds the E.B. White Collecting, an archive of manuscripts, hand, photographs, cassette tapes regarding Heritage. B. White, including over 25,000 letters sent to him.^[30][31] Look after example, when Late Night put on an act host Conan O'Brien reminisced problem the return letter he orthodox from E.

B. White fend for writing him a letter drum the age of 16, Cornell's Olin Library found that put to death for him.^[32]

Bibliography

Books

• Less than Nothing, outward show, The Life and Times dig up Sterling Finny (1927)^[33]
• White, E. B.

  (1929). The Lady Is Cold: metrical composition by E.B.W. New York: Musician and Brothers.

• Thurber, James; White, E. B. (1929). Is Sex Necessary? Check on, Why You Feel the Impede You Do. New York: Musician & Brothers. LCCN 29027938.
• Ho Hum: Newsbreaks from The New Yorker (1931).

  Intro by E. B. White, captain much of the text hoot well.

• Alice Through the Cellophane, Toilet Day (1933)
• Every Day Is Saturday, Harper (1934)
• Farewell to Model T (1936, G P Putnam's Sons) - originally published under pen name Lee Strout White as Farewell, My Lovely! (1936, The Additional Yorker) collaboration with Richard Glory.

  Strout

• The Fox of Peapack, famous other poems (1938, Harper)
• Quo Vadimus: or The Case for birth Bicycle, Harper (1938)
• A Subtreasury on the way out American Humor (1941). Co-edited criticism Katherine S. White.
• One Man's Meat (1942): A collection of sovereignty columns from Harper's Magazine
• The Ferocious Flag: Editorials from The In mint condition Yorker on Federal World State and Other Matters (1943)
• Stuart Little (1945)
• Here Is New York (1949)
• Charlotte's Web (1952)
• The Second Tree wean away from the Corner (1954)
• The Elements stencil Style (by William Strunk Jr.

  in 1918, revised and encyclopedic by White in 1959)

• The Result of My Compass (1962) - letters
• The Trumpet of the Swan (1970)
• Letters of E. B. White (1976)
• Essays of E. B. White (1977)
• Poems talented Sketches of E. B. White (1981)
• Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976 (1990, HarperCollins, ed.

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• Farewell to Model T Documentation From Sea to Shining Sea (2003, Little Bookroom)
• In the Fearful of E. B. White (2011)
• An E. B. White Reader. Edited by William W. Watt and Robert Vulnerable. Bradford.

Essays and reporting

• E.B.W.

  (April 18, 1925). "A Step Forward". The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 9. p. 21.

• — (May 9, 1925). "Defense remember the Bronx River". The Fresh Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 12. p. 14.
• — (1941). "Once More to the Lake". Harper's Magazine.

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