Poems and Sketches of E. B. White

About this book

Elwyn Brooks White (1899 – 1985) was an American writer. He was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist and author of such beloved children's classics as Charlotte's Web (1952), Stuart Little (1945), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). He graduated from Cornell University in 1921 and, five or six years later, joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine. He authored over seventeen books of prose and poetry and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973. This book offers a collection of approximately fifty poems and thirty-five sketches, stories, parodies, and commentary, selected by the author from his lifetime of writing.