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Who Was E.B. White?
E.B. White joined The New Yorker magazine as writer and contributing editor, a position he would hold for the rest of his career. He wrote three books for children, including Stuart Little () and Charlotte's Web ().
In he revised The Elements of Style by the late William Strunk Jr., which became a standard style manual for writers. White, who earned a Pulitzer Prize special citation in , passed away at his home in Maine in
Early Life and Career
White was born on July 11, , in Mount Vernon, New York.
His parents named him Elwyn Brooks White, but he did not appreciate the name.
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"I never liked Elwyn. My mother just hung it on me because she'd run out of names," he told The New York Times in "I was her sixth child."
While attending Cornell University, White acquired the nickname "Andy," which he was known by for the rest of his life.
In college, he served as the editor of the school's newspaper; after