Writings from the New Yorker 1927-1976
Main Author: | White, E. B. 1899-1985. |
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Other Authors: | Dale, Rebecca M. |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
HarperCollins,
c1990.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: |
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
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Physical Description: |
xi, 244 p. ; 25 cm. |
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Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244). |
ISBN: |
0060165170 : |
Author Notes: |
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) |