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E. B. White (1899–1985)

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Born in Mount Vernon, New York, E. B. White was educated at Cornell University and served as a private in World War I. After several years as a journalist, he joined the staff of the New Yorker, then in its infancy. For 11 years he wrote most of the "Talk of the Town" columns, and it was White and mostra'n més James Thurber who can be credited with setting the style and attitude of the magazine. In 1938 he retired to a saltwater farm in Maine, where he wrote essays regularly for Harper's Magazine under the title "One Man's Meat." Like Thoreau, White preferred the woods; he also resembled Thoreau in his impatience and indignation. White received several prizes: in 1960, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 1963, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award (he was honored along with Thornton Wilder and Edmund Wilson); and in 1978, a special Pulitzer Prize. His verse is original and witty but with serious undertones. His friend James Thurber described him as "a poet who loves to live half-hidden from the eye." Three of his books have become children's classics: Stuart Little (1945), about a mouse born into a human family, Charlotte's Web (1952), about a spider who befriends a lonely pig, and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Among his best-known and most widely used books is The Elements of Style (1959), a guide to grammar and rhetoric based on a text written by one of his professors at Cornell, William Strunk, which White revised and expanded. White was married to Katherine Angell, the first fiction editor of the New Yorker. (Bowker Author Biography) Elwyn Brooks White was born on July 11, 1899, in Mt. Vernon, New York. After graduating from Cornell University, he worked briefly for an advertising agency and as a newspaper reporter before joining the staff of The New Yorker magazine in 1927. As a columnist for The New Yorker and a contributor to Harper's Magazine, White established a reputation as a prose stylist of exceptional elegance, clarity and wit. His interests, as reflected in his writing, were numerous and varied; his essays touched on such wide-ranging subjects as politics, farm animals, and life in New York City. White married Katharine S. Angell in 1929. They had one son, and in 1957 the family left New York for a farm in North Brookline, Maine. Writings from The New Yorker, 1927-1976 is a compilation of columns and essays produced during White's long relationship with the magazine. One Man's Meat, published in 1942, is a collection of his writings for Harper's. White adapted a short guide to English grammar and usage, The Elements of Style, from a college text written by one of his professors at Cornell, William Strunk Jr. It has sold millions of copies since it was first published in 1959 and has become a cherished resource for guidance in writing. White also co-authored Is Sex Necessary? with the humorist James Thurber, a fellow staff member at The New Yorker. E.B. White died on October 1, 1985 after succumbing to Alzheimer's. His diverse legacy also includes three children's books: Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. In 1970 the American Library Association presented White the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in recognition of his "substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children." He was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and received a special Pulitzer Prize citation for his body of work in 1970. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

Obres de E. B. White

Charlotte's Web (1952) 35,951 exemplars
The Elements of Style (1959) 19,800 exemplars
Stuart Little (1945) 14,702 exemplars
The Trumpet of the Swan (1970) 11,504 exemplars
The Elements of Style Illustrated (2005) 1,677 exemplars
Essays of E.B. White (1977) 1,502 exemplars
Here is New York (1949) 1,025 exemplars
One Man's Meat (1942) 824 exemplars
Letters of E. B. White (1976) 488 exemplars
Onward and Upward in the Garden (1979) — Editor; Introducció — 480 exemplars
The Second Tree from the Corner (1954) 443 exemplars
A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941) — Editor — 276 exemplars
Poems and Sketches of E. B. White (1981) 274 exemplars
The Annotated Charlotte's Web (1750) 143 exemplars
On Democracy (2019) 81 exemplars
Charlotte's Web / Stuart Little (1957) — Autor — 43 exemplars
An E. B. White Reader (1966) 27 exemplars
Notes on Our Times (2007) 15 exemplars
On Kawara (2018) 11 exemplars
The Moon 1968-1972 (2016) 9 exemplars
The Door 8 exemplars
Death of a Pig 6 exemplars
Once More to the Lake (2011) 4 exemplars
Stuart Little 3 exemplars
Every Day is Saturday (1934) 3 exemplars
Reading room 3 exemplars
La trompeta del cigne (2016) 1 exemplars
ORUMCEK AGI 1 exemplars
Panza Charlottei 1 exemplars
No Dummy 1 exemplars
Charlotte koob võrku (2023) 1 exemplars
Irtnog 1 exemplars
The Hour of Letdown 1 exemplars
The geese 1 exemplars
Tela Di Carlotta 1 exemplars
Qui New York 1 exemplars
Charlottes tryllevev (2006) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 1,552 exemplars
The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Col·laborador — 1,371 exemplars
50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Col·laborador — 1,242 exemplars
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 774 exemplars
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Col·laborador — 706 exemplars
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Col·laborador — 461 exemplars
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Col·laborador — 457 exemplars
Charlotte's Web [1973 film] (1973) — Original book — 452 exemplars
Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Col·laborador — 437 exemplars
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (1952) — Col·laborador — 435 exemplars
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Col·laborador — 430 exemplars
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Col·laborador — 414 exemplars
Charlotte's Web [2006 film] (2006) — Original Story — 412 exemplars
Reporting World War II Part Two : American Journalism 1944-1946 (1995) — Col·laborador — 388 exemplars
The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel (1916) — Introducció, algunes edicions367 exemplars
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Col·laborador — 354 exemplars
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 2 (1959) — Col·laborador — 316 exemplars
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (1961) — Col·laborador — 296 exemplars
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction [2-volume set] (1959) — Col·laborador — 292 exemplars
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Col·laborador — 291 exemplars
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Col·laborador — 275 exemplars
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Col·laborador — 275 exemplars
It's Great To Be Eight (1997) — Col·laborador — 263 exemplars
Stuart Little [1999 film] (1999) — Original book — 259 exemplars
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Col·laborador — 207 exemplars
Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (1940) — Col·laborador — 201 exemplars
This Is My Best (1942) — Col·laborador — 186 exemplars
Eight Modern Essayists (1980)algunes edicions177 exemplars
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Col·laborador — 152 exemplars
The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (1943) — Col·laborador — 143 exemplars
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Col·laborador — 142 exemplars
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (2003) — Col·laborador — 134 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities (1931) — Introducció, algunes edicions106 exemplars
Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (1986) — Col·laborador — 103 exemplars
The Trumpet of the Swan [2001 film] (2000) — Original book — 95 exemplars
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Col·laborador — 90 exemplars
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (1949) — Col·laborador — 60 exemplars
Best in Children's Books 10A (1963) 59 exemplars
Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2004) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Col·laborador — 51 exemplars
Charlotte's Web: A Full-Length Play (1983) — Original book — 48 exemplars
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (1945) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure [2003 film] (2003) — Original Story — 44 exemplars
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Col·laborador — 39 exemplars
In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (1986) — Col·laborador — 35 exemplars
Stories for Men (1938) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
The War: Stories of Life and Death from World War II (1999) — Col·laborador — 31 exemplars
A Book of Essays (1963) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
The Looking Glass Book of Stories (1960) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
The Complete Stuart Little (3 Disc Box Set) (1999) — Writer — 14 exemplars
The Panorama of Modern Literature (1934) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Favorite Animal Stories (1987) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Tales for Males (1945) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Wide-Angle Lens: Stories of Time and Space (1980) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
British and American Essays, 1905-1956 (1959) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
The bear went over the mountain (1964) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Furrow's End: An Anthology of Great Farm Stories — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Contos Dramáticos — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Thornwillow Charlotte’s Web a Fine Press Forum (octubre 2023)
October 2015: E.B. White a Monthly Author Reads (desembre 2017)

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Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.

Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection--he even goes to school to learn to read and write. But nothing seems to work. Then his father steals him a real brass trumpet. Is a musical instrument the key to winning Louis his love?… (més)
 
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John Updike Foreword
Maira Kalman Illustrator
Roger Angell Foreword, Introduction
Robin Miles Narrator
Emily Rankin Narrator
January LaVoy Narrator
Lincoln Hoppe Narrator
Tjalling Bos Translator
Kimberly Farr Narrator
Tavia Gilbert Narrator
Mark Deakins Narrator
Hazel Douglas Narrator
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Melissa Sweet Introduction
Hans Heesen Translator
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Godfried Bomans Translator
Fred Marcellino Illustrator
Edward Frascino Illustrator
Jenny Merling Translator
Edward Francino Illustrator
Peter F. Neumeyer Annotator, Introduction
Jamaica Kincaid Afterword
Bernice L. Fox Translator
Christina Malman Cover artist

Estadístiques

Obres
95
També de
72
Membres
93,094
Popularitat
#100
Valoració
4.1
Ressenyes
1,587
ISBN
663
Llengües
22
Preferit
91

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