He graduated from Cornell University in 1921. White looks at his pet dachshund Minnie while typing in his office at the New Yorker magazine, New York City.Įlwyn Brooks White (JOctober 1, 1985) was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the youngest of six children. Like so many literary giants, White made Greenwich Village his home, in his case during the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, when the Village was brimming with young artists, poets, novelists, and critics. However, his work extended far beyond that genre, and his literary “hats” included essayist, novelist, humorist, and poet (although he described himself as a “non-poet who occasionally breaks into song”). White, most immediately think of the much-adored children’s’ classics, Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, and Trumpet of the Swan.
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