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"No one can write a sentence like White," James Thurber once said of his crisp and graceful writing style.^[1] A liberal free-thinker, White often wrote as an ironic onlooker, championing freedom of the individual. His writing ranged from satire to textbooks and children's fiction. His writers' style guide, The Elements of Style, remains a well-regarded text; his three children's books, Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan, are regarded as classics of the field. James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894–November 2, 1961) was a U.S. humorist and cartoonist. ... Style guides generally give guidance on language use. ... The Elements of Style, 2000 edition. ... Basic Characteristics There is some debate as to what constitutes childrens literature. ... This article is about the book. ... Published in 1945, Stuart Little was E. B. Whites first childrens story. ... The Trumpet of the Swan is a childrens novel by E.B. White published in 1970. ...

Biography

E. B. White in his senior year at Cornell University

E.B. White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921. He picked up the nickname "Andy" at Cornell, where tradition confers that monicker on any male student surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White. While at Cornell, he worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig who later became a sportswriter for The New York Times. White was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society. Image File history File links E.B._White_yearbook. ... Image File history File links E.B._White_yearbook. ... Cornell University is a university located in Ithaca, New York, USA. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar. ... Cornell University is a university located in Ithaca, New York, USA. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar. ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Andrew Dickson White in 1885 Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was an American diplomat, author, and educator, most known as the co-founder of Cornell University. ... The Cornell Daily Sun is an independent daily newspaper published in Ithaca, New York by students at Cornell University. ... Allison Danzig (1899-1987) was an American sportswriter who specialized in writing about tennis but also covered U.S. college football, many Olympic Games, and rowing. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

He wrote for The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer and worked as an ad man before returning to New York City in 1924. The Seattle Times is the leading daily newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. ... The daily Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the second leading newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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 first article in The New Yorker magazine in 1925, then joined the staff in 1927 and continued to contribute for six decades. Best recognized for his essays and unsigned "Notes and Comment" pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine. He also served as a columnist for Harper's Magazine from 1938 to 1943. 

In the late 1930s, White turned his hand to children's fiction on behalf of a niece, Janice Hart White. His first children's book, Stuart Little, was published in 1945, and Charlotte's Web appeared in 1952. Both were highly acclaimed and in 1970, jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a major prize in the field of children's literature. In the same year, he published his third children's novel, The Trumpet of the Swan. In 1973, that book received the Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award from Kansas, both of which were awarded by students voting for their favorite book of the year. The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... An issue of Harpers from 1905 November 2004 issue Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts from a progressive, left perspective. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Face The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... Jane Frank: illustration from Thomas Yoseloffs The Further Adventures of Till Eulenspiegel (1957). ... Published in 1945, Stuart Little was E. B. Whites first childrens story. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... This article is about the book. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal is a prize awarded by the American Library Association to writers or illustrators of childrens books published in the U.S. who have made substantial and lasting contributions to childrens literature. ... The Trumpet of the Swan is a childrens novel by E.B. White published in 1970. ...

In 1959, White edited and updated The Elements of Style. This handbook of grammatical and stylistic dos and don'ts for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell. White's rework of the book was extremely well received, and further editions of the work followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999; an illustrated edition followed in 2005. That same year, a New York composer named Nico Muhly 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. Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Elements of Style, 2000 edition. ... For other uses, see American English (disambiguation). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... William Strunk Jr. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... This article is about the year. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1978, White won a special Pulitzer Prize for his work as a whole. Other awards he received included a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United States. White was also a world federalist and once said[1]: Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States (the other award which is considered its equivalent is the Congressional Gold Medal, which is bestowed by an... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A world government is a hypothetical entity consisting of a single government with authority over an entire planet. ...

"Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it...Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief,a bad man the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government."

White married Katharine Sergeant Angell in 1929, also an editor at The New Yorker, and author (as Katharine White) of Onward and Upward in the Garden. They had a son, Joel White, a naval architect and boatbuilder, who owned Brooklin Boatyard in Brooklin, Maine. Katharine's son from her first marriage, Roger Angell, has spent decades as a fiction editor for The New Yorker and is well-known as the magazine's baseball writer. Katharine Sergeant Angell White (September 17, 1982 – July 20, 1977) was a writer and the fiction editor for The New Yorker magazine. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Joel White, the son of author E. B. White was a renowned U.S. naval architect known for his classic and beautiful designs including the W-Class of boats. ... Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920), is an important figure in the world of American letters, having spent the vast majority of his career as a fiction editor and regular contributor at The New Yorker. ... This article is about the sport. ...

White died on October 1, 1985, at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine, after a long fight with Alzheimer's Disease. He was cremated, and his ashes were buried beside his wife at the Brooklin Cemetery.^[2]

Writings

White's style was wry, understated, thoughtful, and informed. He was widely regarded as a master of the English language, noted for clear, well-constructed, and charming prose. Many readers single out his essay "Here Is New York", written for Holiday magazine in 1948 and published in book form the next year, for its distillation of the bittersweet pleasures of New York City life. It was widely quoted after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, because of a passage--written at the beginning of the age of nuclear weapons--in which he talks about New York's vulnerability: "The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York in the sound of the jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition." A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...

Through his writing, he set a way to write in American English by adopting Anglo-Saxon-derived terms rather than focusing on finding the Latin origin of the words he used. The Associated Press uses White's words in showing his writing style :^[3]

The rules of The Elements of Style were as simple to state -- 'Omit needless words' -- as they were difficult to obey

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Bibliography

• Essays & Collections
  • The Fox of Peapack
  • The Lady Is Cold
  • Every Day Is Saturday
  • Farewell to Model T
  • Quo Vadimus? Or, The Case for the Bicycle
  • One Man's Meat (see The New York Times interview)
  • Once More to the Lake
  • The Points of My Compass
  • The Second Tree from the Corner
  • The Essays of E.B. White
  • The Ring of Time
  • Letters of E.B. White
  • Poems and Sketches of E.B. White
  • The Wild Flag
• Children's Books
  • Charlotte's Web
  • Stuart Little
  • The Trumpet of the Swan
• Other Topics
  • The Elements of Style (with William Strunk, Jr.)
  • A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941), edited by E.B. White and Katharine S. White
  • Is Sex Necessary? (with James Thurber)
  • Here Is New York

The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... Once More to the Lake is an essay first published in Harpers magazine in 1941 by author E.B. White. ... This article is about the book. ... Published in 1945, Stuart Little was E. B. Whites first childrens story. ... The Trumpet of the Swan is a childrens novel by E.B. White published in 1970. ... The Elements of Style, 2000 edition. ... William Strunk Jr. ... James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894–November 2, 1961) was a U.S. humorist and cartoonist. ...

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Further Information

• White's life and career