Elwyn Brooks White was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist and author of such beloved children's classics as
Charlotte's Web,
Stuart Little, and
The Trumpet of the Swan. He graduated from Cornell University in 1921 and, five or six years later, joined the staff of
The New Yorker magazine. He authored over seventeen books of prose and poetry and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973.
White always said that he found writing difficult …
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