E. B. White
E. B. White
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1899 – 1985
1899 – 1985
American essayist, humorist, literary stylist, and author of the children’s classics Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little
Visual Text: E. B. White was known to do all of his writing on a typewriter.
Do you imagine there is an intimate bond that forms between the writer and his or her typewriter? (5)
Click here to read How E. B. White Spun Charlotte’s Web (6)
Click here to read How Stuart Little Arrived (7)
Virtual Visit: Click HERE to visit E. B. White’s home in Brooklin, Maine, including the barn that inspired Charlotte’s Web and the boathouse where E. B. White did much of his writing. (8)
E. B. White’s Writings
E. B. White’s Writings
Click here to read E. B. White’s essay Here Is New York published in 1949 (12)
Click here to read Once More to the Lake, first published in Harper’s Magazine in 1941 (11)
Click here to read E. B. White’s poem Fashions in Dogs from the pages of The New Yorker, December 19, 1936 (13)
(zoom in to read)
(zoom in to read)
E. B. White’s Cemetery Headstone in Brooklin, Maine (16)
If you’d like more to explore…
If you’d like more to explore…
Click here to check out the National Registry of Historic Places (18)
E. B. White shown here with Cornell University professor William Strunk Jr. Strunk gave his students a guide to essential writing principles which became known at Cornell as “the little book” It was published as The Elements of Style after E. B. White (a Cornell graduate) brought attention to it. Click here to read the list of 11 essential “Composition Principles” (19)
Photo credits & Sources from top to bottom of page:
1. Portrait of E. B. White: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6823305/e_b_-white
2. Quote: https://quotefancy.com/quote/1467131/E-B-White-I-would-really-rather-feel-bad-in-Maine-than-feel-good-anywhere-else
3. Neumeyer, Peter F. “E(lwyn) B(rooks) White.” American Writers for Children, 1900-1960, edited by John Cech, Gale, 1983. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 22. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1200002246/LitRC?u=brun84057&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=4b70b5a7. Accessed 16 Mar. 2022.
4. https://www.npr.org/2016/10/05/496699113/new-biography-celebrates-e-b-white-who-really-was-some-writer
5. Top left and right photos: https://timpanogos.blog/2014/06/06/typewriter-of-the-moment-e-b-white-in-rural-maine/ bottom left photo: https://incaseyoureinterested.com/2018/07/11/16-eb-white-quotes-on-writing/
6. https://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137452030/how-e-b-white-spun-charlottes-web
7. http://www.judynewmanatscholastic.com/blog/2019/01/how_stuart_little/
8. https://newengland.com/today/living/homes/eb-white-house-allen-cove/
9. https://urbancomfort.typepad.com/urban_nest/2012/08/checking-in.html
10. https://www.thoughtco.com/writers-on-writing-e-b-white-1692831
11. http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/bhslibrary/files/2020/04/White-Once-More-to-the-Lake.pdf
12. http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/bhslibrary/files/2020/04/Here-is-NY_EB-White1-yk0d8g-1.pdf
13. http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/bhslibrary/files/2020/04/Dec-19-1936-New-Yorker.pdf
14. http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/bhslibrary/files/2020/04/White-Obituary-1985.pdf
15. http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/bhslibrary/files/2020/04/E.B.-WHITE-The-New-York-Times.pdf
16. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6823305/e_b_-white
17. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6823305/e_b_-white
18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Hancock_County,_Maine
19. https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/tips-masters/strunk-white-11-composition-principles
20. https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Nature-of-EB-White/127630
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