This encounter provided the inspiration for what is perhaps his most beloved work, Charlotte's Web , about the friendship between a spider named Charlotte and Wilbur the pig. Though White was becoming known for his work for children, he continued to write for adults as well. His literary classic Here Is New York , published as an essay in before being reprinted in book form the following year, is to many the quintessential depiction of the Big Apple experience. He also revised an earlier work by William Strunk Jr.
The advice contained in this well-known book helped to shape and inspire many future generations of writers. White received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in He followed this accomplishment with his third classic work for young readers, The Trumpet of the Swan In , White was awarded the National Medal for Literature. White wrote numerous poems and essays during his life; a collection of his essays came out in That same year, White's wife passed away.
He was devastated by the loss. White was survived by his son, Joel, his stepchildren, Roger Angell and Nancy Stableford and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. He was the organization's executive secretary from to Vanna White is the longtime co-host of the popular game show 'Wheel of Fortune. American skateboarder and snowboarder Shaun White, known as the "Flying Tomato," is a three-time Olympic gold medalist.
He has also won multiple Summer and Winter X Games medals. John White was an English artist, explorer, cartographer and governor of the settlement on Roanoke Island. Alex Haley was a writer whose works of historical fiction and reportage depicted generations of African American lives. White was offered a teaching position at the University of Minnesota, but turned it down because his goal was to become a writer. White then worked for two years with the Frank Seaman advertising agency as a production assistant and copywriter.
Adams, the newspaper columnist who helped several talented young people achieve success during the s and s. In White published the article "Defense of the Bronx River" in the New Yorker magazine, his first piece in this publication. It led to his being named a contributing editor in , an association which continued until his death in From the time of its origin, The New Yorker was one of the most well-received periodicals in the nation.
Kaufman — as contributors, so White was in the company of the best when he was added to the staff. At some time White became the principal contributor to the magazine's column "Notes and Comment" and set the tone of informed, intelligent, tolerant, faintly amused city life in observations on the passing scene, a feature that continued after his death.
Freudian psychology, or the study of the subconscious, had been enormously influential in America in the s, giving rise to many volumes analyzing or presenting advice on the subject. The time was ripe for a parody a literary or artistic work that copies the style of an existing subject in order to make fun of it of such books, and these two came up with a witty, low key work featuring passages like this: "The sexual revolution began with Man's discovery that he was not attractive to Woman, as such.
The result was that Man found it necessary to develop attractive personal traits to offset his E. Reproduced by permission of the Corbis Corporation. He learned to say funny things. He learned to smoke, and blow smoke rings.
He learned to earn money. This would have been a solution to his difficulty, but in the course of making himself attractive to Woman by developing himself mentally, he had inadvertently [unintentionally] become so intelligent an animal that he saw how comical the whole situation was.
Strout of the Christian Science Monitor. It served as the basis for the book Farewell to the Model T, published later that same year. White's next work was a poetry collection, The Fox of Peapack , the same year that he began the monthly column "One Man's Meat" for Harper's magazine, a column which lasted five years.
There followed the essay collection Quo Vadimus? In White entered a new field with great success, writing Stuart Little for children. The story of a mouse born to normal human parents was clearly intended to console young people who thought themselves different or odd, and it carried the message that Stuart's parents never batted an eye when their son turned out to be a mouse and that the hero could build himself a good life.
The story of the bond between the young pig Wilbur and the clever spider who saves his life is a look at the power of friendship and a reminder to young readers that death is a part of life. The Second Tree from the Corner came in Strunk Jr.
Strunk used a text he had written and published at his own expense, a thin volume titled The Elements of Style. White edited it, revised it, and added the chapter "An Approach to Style," offering such advice as "Place yourself in the background; do not explain too much; prefer the standard to the offbeat.
Honors began to pour in for White. In he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. White's influence was great, particularly in his popular essays, which served as models for two generations of readers. In the s, s, and s, the New Yorker was judged by critics to be a model of elegant yet simple style in nonfiction, and White was in no small measure responsible for this reputation. He died on October 1, , in North Brooklin, Maine. Craats, Rennay.
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