Biography of e b white

(1899-1985)

Who Was E.B. White?

E.B. White joined The New Yorker magazine as writer and contributing editor, a position he would hold for the rest of his career. He wrote three books for children, including Stuart Little (1945) and Charlotte's Web (1952).

In 1959 he revised The Elements of Style by the late William Strunk Jr., which became a standard style manual for writers. White, who earned a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 1978, passed away at his home in Maine in 1985.

Early Life and Career

White was born on July 11, 1899, in Mount Vernon, New York.

Biography of e. b. white the author

His parents named him Elwyn Brooks White, but he did not appreciate the name. "I never liked Elwyn. My mother just hung it on me because she'd run out of names," he told The New York Times in 1980. "I was her sixth child."

While attending Cornell University, White acquired the nickname "Andy," which he was known by for the rest of his life.

In college, he served as the