The School Library Journal sponsored a survey of readers, which identified Charlotte's Web as the best children's novel ("fictional title for readers 8–12" years old)
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E. B. White
Elwyn Brooks White was an American writer, essayist, and a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine. He was also the author of highly popular books for children: Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).
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Born 11 July 1899 · Died 1 October 1985 · Q361617
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Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway — security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.
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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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1999· 1 entry
On his centennial with an introduction by his stepson, Roger Angell
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1985· 4 entries
Died 1985-10-01.
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At his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway — security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.”
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (1978).
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White was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize, citing "his letters, essays and the full body of his work"
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1973· 1 entry
It won the Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award from Kansas, both selected by students voting for their favorite book of the year
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Children's Literature Legacy Award (1970).
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White's third children's novel was published, The Trumpet of the Swan
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1963· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1963).
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And honorary memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United States
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1959· 1 entry
White edited and updated The Elements of Style
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Newbery Honor for Charlotte's Web (1953).
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1949· 1 entry
White published Here Is New York, a short book based on an article he had been commissioned to write for Holiday
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1929· 2 entries
After an affair that led to Katharine Angell's divorce, she and White were married
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White coauthored with James Thurber on Is Sex Necessary
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1925· 2 entries
After The New Yorker was founded, White began submitting manuscripts to the magazine
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Then joined the staff in 1927 and continued to write for the magazine for nearly six decades
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1921· 2 entries
Studied at Cornell University (1921).
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White graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree
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1918· 2 entries
To hasten the training of US soldiers for World War I in Europe
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Revised and expanded by White in 1959)
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1899· 2 entries
Born 1899-07-11.
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The sixth and youngest child of Samuel Tilly White, the president of a piano firm, and Jessie Hart White, the daughter of Scottish-American painter William Hart
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