E. B. White (1899–1985)
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Born in Mount Vernon, New York, E. B. White was educated at Cornell University and served as a private in World War I. After several years as a journalist, he joined the staff of the New Yorker, then in its infancy. For 11 years he wrote most of the "Talk of the Town" columns, and it was White and visa mer James Thurber who can be credited with setting the style and attitude of the magazine. In 1938 he retired to a saltwater farm in Maine, where he wrote essays regularly for Harper's Magazine under the title "One Man's Meat." Like Thoreau, White preferred the woods; he also resembled Thoreau in his impatience and indignation. White received several prizes: in 1960, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 1963, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award (he was honored along with Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson); and in 1978, a special Pulitzer Prize. His verse is original and witty but with serious undertones. His friend James Thurber described him as "a poet who loves to live half-hidden from the eye." Three of his books have become children's classics: Stuart Little (1945), about a mouse born into a human family, Charlotte's Web (1952), about a spider who befriends a lonely pig, and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Among his best-known and most widely used books is The Elements of Style (1959), a guide to grammar and rhetoric based on a text written by one of his professors at Cornell, William Strunk, which White revised and expanded. White was married to Katherine Angell, the first fiction editor of the New Yorker. (Bowker Author Biography) Elwyn Brooks White was born on July 11, 1899, in Mt. Vernon, New York. After graduating from Cornell University, he worked briefly for an advertising agency and as a newspaper reporter before joining the staff of The New Yorker magazine in 1927. As a columnist for The New Yorker and a contributor to Harper's Magazine, White established a reputation as a prose stylist of exceptional elegance, clarity and wit. His interests, as reflected in his writing, were numerous and varied; his essays touched on such wide-ranging subjects as politics, farm animals, and life in New York City. White married Katharine S. Angell in 1929. They had one son, and in 1957 the family left New York for a farm in North Brookline, Maine. Writings from The New Yorker, 1927-1976 is a compilation of columns and essays produced during White's long relationship with the magazine. One Man's Meat, published in 1942, is a collection of his writings for Harper's. White adapted a short guide to English grammar and usage, The Elements of Style, from a college text written by one of his professors at Cornell, William Strunk Jr. It has sold millions of copies since it was first published in 1959 and has become a cherished resource for guidance in writing. White also co-authored Is Sex Necessary? with the humorist James Thurber, a fellow staff member at The New Yorker. E.B. White died on October 1, 1985 after succumbing to Alzheimer's. His diverse legacy also includes three children's books: Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. In 1970 the American Library Association presented White the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in recognition of his "substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children." He was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and received a special Pulitzer Prize citation for his body of work in 1970. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av E. B. White
The Wild Flag: Editorials from The New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters (1946) 41 exemplar
Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E. B. White and Edmund Ware Smith (2020) 38 exemplar
In the Words of E. B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers (2011) 22 exemplar
Newbery Award Favorite Library 8 Book Box Set : Charlotte's Web, The One and Only Ivan, Ella Enchanted, Dragonwings (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
The Door 8 exemplar
Death of a Pig 6 exemplar
THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE. WITH REVISIONS, AN INTROD., AND A CHAPTER ON WRITING BY E. B. WHITE (1972) 3 exemplar
Stuart Little 3 exemplar
W.Strunk.'s E. B. White's The Elements of Style (The Elements of Style: 50th Anniversary Edition… (2008) 3 exemplar
Charlotte's Web ... E. B. White 1952 3 exemplar
Reading room 3 exemplar
The Elements of Reasoning 2 exemplar
The Points of My Compass 2 exemplar
Charlotte's Web - Book and DVD 1 exemplar
Les aventures de Narcisse 1 exemplar
ORUMCEK AGI 1 exemplar
Cleopatra: The Life of an Egyptian Queen 1 exemplar
The tumpet of the swan 1 exemplar
TheTrumpet of the Swan 1 exemplar
Stuart Little - Abridged 1 exemplar
Panza Charlottei 1 exemplar
No Dummy 1 exemplar
Stuart Little : Teacher's Guide 1 exemplar
סטיוארט קטינא 1 exemplar
A Letter From E. B. White 1 exemplar
Topics : our new countryman at the U.N. 1 exemplar
Irtnog 1 exemplar
The Hour of Letdown 1 exemplar
The geese 1 exemplar
Tela Di Carlotta 1 exemplar
Qui New York 1 exemplar
Letters of E. B. White 1 exemplar
The trumpet of the swan 1 exemplar
Charlotte's Web- "DVD" Movie 1 exemplar
Til Death Do Us Part 1 exemplar
Rare - Charlotte's Web & Other Classics by White Illustrated New Sealed Leather Bound (1777) 1 exemplar
Charlotte và Wilbur 1 exemplar
Essays of E. B. White 1 exemplar
HLe Iavventure di Stuart Little 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 706 exemplar
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (2003) — vissa utgåvor — 489 exemplar
Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 437 exemplar
Reporting World War II Part Two : American Journalism 1944-1946 (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 388 exemplar
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 244 exemplar
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 131 exemplar
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 90 exemplar
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 81 exemplar
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 77 exemplar
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 55 exemplar
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 37 exemplar
In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 35 exemplar
Charlotte's Web - 3 Movie Collection (Charlotte's Web/Charlotte's Web -Animation/Charlotte's Web 2 - Animation) (2012) — Original book — 10 exemplar
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 3 — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Furrow's End: An Anthology of Great Farm Stories — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Contos Dramáticos — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- White, Elwyn Brooks
- Födelsedag
- 1899-07-11
- Avled
- 1985-10-01
- Begravningsplats
- Brooklin Cemetery, Brooklin, Maine, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Mount Vernon, New York, USA
- Dödsort
- North Brooklin, Maine, USA
- Dödsorsak
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Bostadsorter
- Seattle, Washington, USA
New York, New York, USA - Utbildning
- Cornell University (AB|1921)
- Yrken
- journalist
writer - Relationer
- White, Katharine S. (spouse)
Angell, Roger (stepson)
Thurber, James (friend)
Strunk, William (mentor) - Organisationer
- Harper's Magazine
The New Yorker
United States Army - Priser och utmärkelser
- Pulitzer Prize (Special Citation, 1978)
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (1970)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1962)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1960)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Thornwillow Charlotte’s Web i Fine Press Forum (oktober 2023)
October 2015: E.B. White i Monthly Author Reads (december 2017)
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