Letters of E. B. White

e.b. white dorothy lobrano guth

After his biography was published (in 1984), E. B. White offered this insider's "I wish you the joy of the book and am only sorry my life wasn't crowded with exciting, bawdy, violent events. I know how hard it is to write about a fellow who spends most of his time crouched over a typewriter. That was my fate, too."

Genres nonfictionbiographyessayswritingmemoirclassicsliteraturebiography memoirbooks about books

686 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1976

Literary awards

laurence l. u0026 thomas winship/pen new england award, national book critics circle award, national book award finalist,

This edition

Format: 686 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 28, 1991 by Borgo Pr
ISBN: 9780809590636
ASIN: 0809590638
Language: English

About the author

e.b. white

Elwyn Brooks White was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist and author of such beloved children's classics as Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. He graduated from Cornell University in 1921 and, five or six years later, joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine. He authored over seventeen books of prose and poetry and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973.

White always said that he found writing difficult and bad for one's disposition.

Mr. White has won countless awards, including the 1971 National Medal for Literature and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, which commended him for making “a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.”