E. B. White (1899-1985) was one of the most influential modern American essayists, largely through his work for The New Yorker magazine. He also wrote two children's classics and revised Strunk's The Elements of Style, widely used in college English...

Generally recognized as one of the best essayists of the twentieth century, E. B. White was also a major force in the success of The New Torker magazine, a writer of some of the best children's stories of our time, an inspiring advocate of world...

Generally recognized as one of the best essayists of the twentieth century, E. B. White was also a major force in the success of the New Yorker magazine, a writer of some of the best children's stories of our time, an inspiring advocate of world...

Charlotte's Web author E. B. White has delighted people of all ages with his essays, poems, and classic children's stories since the 1920s. He was one of the early New Yorker writers and helped set the tone that established it as the...

Betty White was one of the first women to form her own television production company, and she also became one of TV's best-loved performers, whether her character was sweetly innocent or a harridan. Her early roles ranged from girl-next-door...

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, New York – October 1, 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist. He was 86 years old when he died. "No one can write a sentence like...

E.B. White, who died last week at 86, was a New Yorker in the most graceful way: he had the presence of mind, the sense of humor and the instinct for survival to spend most of his time in Maine. In his fanciful...

E.B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist by Robert L. Root, Jr. University of Iowa Press, 243 pp., $29.95. We consider E. B. White an essayist based on reverence for his essays "Once More to the Lake" and "Death of a Pig," and...

The message of "Charlotte's Web" has softened the heart of a farmer who has decided a piggy who posed as Wilbur won't be going to market after all. "Charlotte's Web," which author E.B. White called "a story of friendship and...

Katharine White gardened in tweed suits and Ferragamo pumps. Pat Buckley preferred a bikini when deadheading her Connecticut rose garden. But what to wear to garden in a public space, Riverside Park, where I was not only visible but a kind of minor attraction? As...

White has been a kind of national housekeeper and caretaker. He has gone on steadily and quietly, looking around and ahead, poking into public and domestic corners, defusing bombs, and brushing down cobwebs, caretaking whether anybody else cared or not (thousands cared that he cared); and hardly any literate American has not benefited from his humor, his nonsense, his creativity, and his engaging wisdom. White's readers can glean the astute observations and experiences of a dedicated denizen of megal...

Although most of White's poetry is light verse, his best poems are not always his humorous poems, and his humorous ones often have an ironic twist or comment that gives them a serious tone. Those poems where humor is the chief or sole effect are apt to be too topical or too insubstantial to be effective; some, however, are successful. (p. 38) By and large, we cannot claim a great deal for the poems in [The Lady Is Cold]; White is too restrained, and at times there is too much distance between the poe...

One of the many interesting pieces in Essays of E. B. White is called "Some Remarks on Humor" and was originally the preface to an anthology of humor assembled by White and his wife and published in 1941. In it, White does his duty to the publishers like a man and talks about the essence of humor—why funny is so funny, what temperature the oven should be, and so on—but his heart is not in this unhappy duty; no man knows better that a dissertation on humor is bound to be worthless...

Throughout the story, E.B White did do an excellent job in trying to remain neutral and unbiased in his comparison between the country school and the city school.