Elwyn Brooks "E B" White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)[1] was an American His acclaimed children's books included Charlotte's Web and Stuart LWhite graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in He picked up the nickname "Andy" at Cornell, where tradition confers that moniker on any male student surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson W While at Cornell, he worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig who later became a sportswriter for The New York T White was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society and Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) He wrote for The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer and worked as an ad man before returning to New York City in He published his first article in The New Yorker magazine in 1925, then joined the staff in 1927 and continued to contribute for six Best recognized for his essays and unsigned "Notes and Comment" pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary He also served as a columnist for Harper's Magazine from 1938 to In the late 1930s, White turned his hand to children's fiction on behalf of a niece, Janice Hart W His first children's book, Stuart Little, was published in 1945, and Charlotte's Web appeared in Stuart Little received a lukewarm welcome from the literary community at first, due in part to the reluctance to endorse it by Anne Carroll Moore, the retired but still powerful children's librarian from the New York Public L However, both went on to receive high acclaim and in 1970, jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a major prize in the field of children's In the same year, he published his third children's novel, The Trumpet of the S In 1973, that book received the Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award from Kansas, both of which were awarded by students voting for their favorite book of the In 1959, White edited and updated The Elements of S This handbook of grammatical and stylistic dos and don'ts for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk, J, one of White's professors at C White's rework of the book was extremely well received, and further editions of the work followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999; an illustrated edition followed in That same year, a New York composer named Nico Muhly premiered a short opera based on the The volume is a standard tool for students and writers and remains required reading in many composition In 1978, White won an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his work as a Other awards he received included a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United SWhite married Katharine Sergeant Angell in 1929, also an editor at The New Yorker, and author (as Katharine White) of Onward and Upward in the G They had a son, Joel White, a naval architect and boatbuilder, who owned Brooklin Boatyard in Brooklin, M Katharine's son from her first marriage, Roger Angell, has spent decades as a fiction editor for The New Yorker and is well-known as the magazine's baseball White was related to James White who was a Methodist preacher in MWhite died on October 1, 1985, at his farm home in North Brooklin, M He was buried beside his wife at the Brooklin C