Elwyn Brooks White

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Elwyn Brooks White (mostly EB White , pseudonym Janice Hart White ; born July 11, 1899 in Mount Vernon , NY , † October 1, 1985 in North Brooklin , Maine ) was a well-known American author , comedian and poet .

Life

EB White received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1921 . During his student days, during which the nickname "Andy" became common, he worked as a journalist for the Cornell Daily Sun together with his fellow student Allison Danzig, later a sports reporter for the New York Times . White was also a member of the Quill and Dagger group .

He wrote in Seattle for The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and worked as an advertising editor before moving to New York in 1924 . In 1952 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1962 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

White married Katharine Sergeant Angell in 1929, who was also a journalist for The New Yorker , who published Onward and Upward in the Garden under the name Katharine White . The couple had their son Joel White, who later became a shipbuilding engineer and shipbuilder.

White died on his farm, where he grew up, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease . The urn with his ashes was buried next to his wife in Brooklin Cemetery.

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In the late 1930s, White began writing children's and youth literature . His first children's book, Little Stuart , was published in 1945, and Wilbur and Charlotte (original title: Charlotte's Web ) appeared in 1952. Both books were critically acclaimed. In 1970, White won the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for great merits in children's literature for both books together . In 2020, Wilbur and Charlotte appeared at number 6 on the list of the most-loaned books in the New York Public Library's 125th anniversary . Also in 1970 White published his third children's book, The Trumpet of the Swan . In 1973 this book received the Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award from Kansas , both awards for the selection of students to name their favorite book of the year.

Articles and 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
  • Once more to the lake
  • The Points of My Compass
  • The Second Tree from the Corner
  • The Essays of EB White
  • The Ring of Time
  • Letters of EB White
  • Poems and Sketches of EB White
  • The Wild Flag

Children's books

Other books

  • with William Strunk Jr .: The Elements of Style.
  • with Katharine S. White: A Subtreasury of American Humor. 1941
  • with James Thurber : Is Sex Necessary?
  • Here is New York.

literature

  • Scott Elledge: EB White. A biography . WW Norton & Company 1986, ISBN 0-393-30305-5
  • Anne Commire: E (lwyn) B (rooks) White. In: Anne Commire: Something About the Author. Volume 2. Facts and Pictures about Contemporary Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People . Gale Research Book Tower, Detroit 1971, pp. 268-271

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members: Elwyn Brooks White. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 3, 2019 .
  2. ^ Scott Elledge: EB White. A biography . WW Norton & Company, 1986, ISBN 0-393-30305-5 , p. 1.
  3. ↑ The New York Public Library Has Calculated Its Most Checked-Out Book in Its 125 Years , article by Carly Cassella on Science Alert, January 18, 2020, accessed January 18, 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME White, Elwyn Brooks
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, EB; White, Janice Hart (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Vernon
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1985
Place of death North Brooklin