Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)[1] was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte’s Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte’s Web came in first in their poll of the top one hundred children’s novels.[2] In addition, he was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine, and also a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style.
Books in order of publication:
Books
- Less than Nothing, or, The Life and Times of Sterling Finny (1927)[21]
- White, E. B. (1929). The lady is cold : poems by E. B. W. New York: Harper and Brothers.
- Thurber, James; White, E. B. (1929). Is sex necessary? Or, why you feel the way you do. New Yorker: Harper & Brothers.
- Ho Hum: Newsbreaks from the New Yorker (1931). Intro by E. B. White, and much of the text as well.
- Alice Through the Cellophane, John Day (1933)
- Every Day is Saturday, Harper (1934)
- A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941). Co-edited with Katherine S. White.
- One Man’s Meat (1942): A collection of his columns from Harper’s Magazine
- The Wild Flag: Editorials From The New Yorker On Federal World Government And Other Matters (1943)
- Stuart Little (1945)
- Here Is New York
- Charlotte’s Web (1952)
- The Second Tree from the Corner (1954)
- The Elements of Style (with William Strunk, Jr.) (1959, republished 1972, 1979, 1999, 2005)
- The Points of My Compass (1962)
- The Trumpet of the Swan (1970)
- Letters of E. B. White (1976)
- Essays of E. B. White (1977)
- Poems and Sketches of E. B. White (1981)
- Writings from “The New Yorker” (1990)
- In the Words of E. B. White (2011)
- Every Day is Saturday
- Quo Vadimus?
- The Fox of Peapack
- Farewell to Model T
- An E. B. White Reader. Edited by William W. Watt and Robert W. Bradford.
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