E.B. White

This NYT page has a couple of quotes, a photo of White, links to articles and reviews, and a link to a rare recording of White reading from Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan. (Free registration required.)

Interested in White's personal history? Here is a biography of the author that also has a few embedded links. (How does this biographical information compare to what you found on the New York Times site? Why do you think it differs?)

White has contributed to several films. Learn more from this E.B. White filmography.

Look here for some quotations by White.

Click here to hear White reading an excerpt from Charlotte's Web. Now that you know something about his writing, what do you think of his speaking voice?

Here's an excerpt from Stuart Little.

This is the homepage of the New Yorker, a magazine with which White had a close relationship for many years. Take a look at a few of the featured articles. Do you think White's writing would be at home there today?

Here is an online early version of Strunk's The Elements of Style. White later revised it, and it became so successful that it's usually known today as Strunk and White. Do you think White practices what The Elements of Style preaches?

Here is the citation for White's Pulitzer Prize, which honored his entire body of work.

This is a page about Brooklin, Maine, site of White's farm. Does information like this help you understand an author's work? What are the limitations of such information?