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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre

Værker af E. B. White

Charlotte's Web (1952) 35,951 eksemplarer
The Elements of Style (1959) 19,800 eksemplarer
Stuart Little (1945) 14,702 eksemplarer
The Trumpet of the Swan (1970) 11,504 eksemplarer
The Elements of Style Illustrated (2005) 1,677 eksemplarer
Essays of E.B. White (1977) 1,502 eksemplarer
Here is New York (1949) 1,025 eksemplarer
One Man's Meat (1942) 824 eksemplarer
Letters of E. B. White (1976) 488 eksemplarer
Onward and Upward in the Garden (1979) — Redaktør; Introduktion — 480 eksemplarer
The Second Tree from the Corner (1954) 443 eksemplarer
A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941) — Redaktør — 276 eksemplarer
Poems and Sketches of E. B. White (1981) 274 eksemplarer
The Annotated Charlotte's Web (1750) 143 eksemplarer
On Democracy (2019) 81 eksemplarer
Charlotte's Web / Stuart Little (1957) — Forfatter — 43 eksemplarer
An E. B. White Reader (1966) 27 eksemplarer
Notes on Our Times (2007) 15 eksemplarer
Letters and Essays of E.B. White (1979) 12 eksemplarer
On Kawara (2018) 11 eksemplarer
The Moon 1968-1972 (2016) 9 eksemplarer
The Door 8 eksemplarer
Death of a Pig 6 eksemplarer
Once More to the Lake (2011) 4 eksemplarer
Stuart Little 3 eksemplarer
Every Day is Saturday (1934) 3 eksemplarer
Reading room 3 eksemplarer
The Lady is Cold and Other Poems (1929) 3 eksemplarer
La trompeta del cigne (2016) 1 eksemplar
ORUMCEK AGI 1 eksemplar
Panza Charlottei 1 eksemplar
No Dummy 1 eksemplar
Charlotte koob võrku (2023) 1 eksemplar
Irtnog 1 eksemplar
The Hour of Letdown 1 eksemplar
The geese 1 eksemplar
Tela Di Carlotta 1 eksemplar
Qui New York 1 eksemplar
Charlottes tryllevev (2006) 1 eksemplar

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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,552 eksemplarer
The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Bidragyder — 1,371 eksemplarer
50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Bidragyder — 1,242 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 774 eksemplarer
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Bidragyder — 461 eksemplarer
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Bidragyder — 457 eksemplarer
Charlotte's Web [1973 film] (1973) — Original book — 452 eksemplarer
Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Bidragyder — 437 eksemplarer
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (1952) — Bidragyder — 435 eksemplarer
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Bidragyder — 430 eksemplarer
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Bidragyder — 414 eksemplarer
Charlotte's Web [2006 film] (2006) — Original Story — 412 eksemplarer
Reporting World War II Part Two : American Journalism 1944-1946 (1995) — Bidragyder — 388 eksemplarer
The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel (1916) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver367 eksemplarer
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Bidragyder — 354 eksemplarer
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 2 (1959) — Bidragyder — 316 eksemplarer
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (1961) — Bidragyder — 296 eksemplarer
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction [2-volume set] (1959) — Bidragyder — 292 eksemplarer
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Bidragyder — 291 eksemplarer
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Bidragyder — 275 eksemplarer
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Bidragyder — 275 eksemplarer
It's Great To Be Eight (1997) — Bidragyder — 263 eksemplarer
Stuart Little [1999 film] (1999) — Original book — 259 eksemplarer
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Bidragyder — 207 eksemplarer
Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (1940) — Bidragyder — 201 eksemplarer
This Is My Best (1942) — Bidragyder — 186 eksemplarer
Eight Modern Essayists (1980)nogle udgaver177 eksemplarer
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Bidragyder — 152 eksemplarer
The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (1943) — Bidragyder — 143 eksemplarer
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Bidragyder — 142 eksemplarer
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (2003) — Bidragyder — 134 eksemplarer
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities (1931) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver106 eksemplarer
Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (1986) — Bidragyder — 103 eksemplarer
The Trumpet of the Swan [2001 film] (2000) — Original book — 95 eksemplarer
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (1949) — Bidragyder — 60 eksemplarer
Best in Children's Books 10A (1963) 59 eksemplarer
Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2004) — Bidragyder — 57 eksemplarer
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Bidragyder — 51 eksemplarer
Charlotte's Web: A Full-Length Play (1983) — Original book — 48 eksemplarer
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (1945) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure [2003 film] (2003) — Original Story — 44 eksemplarer
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Bidragyder — 39 eksemplarer
In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (1986) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer
Stories for Men (1938) — Bidragyder — 34 eksemplarer
The War: Stories of Life and Death from World War II (1999) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
A Book of Essays (1963) — Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
The Looking Glass Book of Stories (1960) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
The Complete Stuart Little (3 Disc Box Set) (1999) — Writer — 14 eksemplarer
The Panorama of Modern Literature (1934) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
Favorite Animal Stories (1987) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Tales for Males (1945) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Wide-Angle Lens: Stories of Time and Space (1980) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
British and American Essays, 1905-1956 (1959) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
The bear went over the mountain (1964) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Furrow's End: An Anthology of Great Farm Stories — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Contos Dramáticos — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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