E. B. White
|E. B. White|
White sitting on the beach with his dog Minnie
|Born||Elwyn Brooks White
July 11, 1899
Mount Vernon, New York, US
|Died||October 1, 1985
North Brooklin, Maine, US
|Alma mater||Cornell University|
He is most famous for his 1959 manual about how to write well in English, The Elements of Style (which was first written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918), and also for his three children's books Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and the Trumpet of the Swan (1970).
E.B. White won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. The Trumpet of the Swan may be his best-selling book, but Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey, and not for the first time.
References[change | change source]
- "SLJ's Top 100 Children's Novels" (poster presentation of reader poll results). A Fuse #8 Production. School Library Journal. 2012. Retrieved June 17, 2013.