What is E. B. White?
{{No sources|date=August 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox person |name= E. B. White | image = EB White and his dog Minnie.png | alt = | caption = White on the beach with his dog Minnie <!--date unknown--> |birth_name = Elwyn Brooks White |birth_date = July 11, 1899 |birth_place = [[Mount Vernon, New York]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1985|10|1|1899|7|11}} |death_place = North [[Brooklin, Maine]], U.S. |education = [[Cornell University]] |occupation = Writer | spouse = {{marriage|[[Katharine Sergeant Angell White|Katharine Sergeant]]|1929|1977|end=died}} |signature = EB White Signature.svg | imagesize = | period = | genre = | subject = }} '''Elwyn Brooks White''' (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an [[Americans|American]] [[writer]]. He is most famous for his 1959 manual about how to write well in English, ''[[The Elements of Style]]'' (which was first written by [[William Strunk Jr.]] in 1918), and also for his three children's books ''[[Stuart Little]]'' (1945), ''[[Charlotte's Web]]'' (1952), and the ''[[Trumpet of the Swan]]'' (1970). He also wrote for [[magazine]]s and [[newspaper]]s in the [[United States]]. E.B. White won many [[award]]s, including a [[Pulitzer Prize]]. E.B. White had 1 child named Joel White. == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] {{DEFAULTSORT:White, E. B.}} [[Category:1899 births]] [[Category:1985 deaths]] [[Category:Writers from New York (state)]] [[Category:Pulitzer Prize winners]] [[Category:People from Mount Vernon, New York]] [[Category:American children's writers]] [[Category:American journalists]] [[Category:American novelists]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:American screenwriters]] [[Category:Cornell University alumni]] [[Category:Deaths from Alzheimer's disease]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Maine]] [[Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients]] [[Category:Newbery Medal winning authors]] {{US-biography-stub}}