.B. White, in full Elwyn Brooks White, American essayist, author, and literary stylist, whose eloquent, unaffected prose appealed to readers of all ages.
White graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1921 and worked as a reporter and freelance writer before joining The New Yorker magazine as a writer and contributing editor in 1927.
In 1941 White edited with his wife A Subtreasury of American Humor. His three books for children—Stuart Little (1945, film 1999), Charlotte’s Web (1952, film 1973 and 2006), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970)—are considered classics, featuring lively animal protagonists who seamlessly interact with the human world. In 1959 he revised and published a book by the late William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, which became a standard style manual for writing in English. Among White’s other works is Points of My Compass (1962). Letters of E.B. White, edited by D.L. Guth, appeared in 1976, his collected essays in 1977, and Poems and Sketches of E.B. White in 1981. He was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963) and a Pulitzer Prize special citation (1978).
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