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  2. Personal life. Death. Legacy. Bibliography. Books. Essays and reporting. References. External links. E. B. White. Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) [1] was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).

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  3. Oct 2, 1985 · E. B. White, the essayist and stylist who was one of the nation's most precious literary resources, died yesterday at his home in North Brooklin, Me., where he had lived for half a century.

  4. Oct 2, 1985 · October 2, 1985. E.B. White, essayist, poet, and children's novelist, died of Alzheimer's disease yesterday at his home in Brooklin, Maine. He was 86 years old. White was most famous for...

  5. Charlotte's Web was released on October 15, 1952. In light of White's Death of a Pig, published in 1948, which gives an account of his own failure to save a sick pig (bought for butchering), Charlotte's Web can be seen as White's attempt "to save his pig in retrospect".

  6. E. B. White. Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, NY – October 1, 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature. As a literary stylist, he championed clear, concise and well-written prose. A liberal free-thinker, White often wrote as an ironic onlooker, exploring the complexities ...

  7. At any rate, it was after five o’clock and I knew I could put off no longer the evil hour. When my son and I arrived at the pigyard, armed with a small bottle of castor oil and a length of ...

  8. Oct 2, 2017 · Born July 11, 1899, in Mount Vernon, NY; died after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, October 1, 1985, in North Brooklin, ME; son of Samuel Tilly (a piano manufacturer) and Jessie (Hart) White; married Katharine Sergeant Angell (a New Yorker editor), November 13, 1929 (died July 20, 1977); children: Joel McCoun; (stepchildren) Nancy Angell ...

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