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Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)〔 was an American writer. He was a contributor to ''The New Yorker'' magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide ''The Elements of Style'', which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including ''Stuart Little'' (1945), ''Charlotte's Web'' (1952), and ''The Trumpet of the Swan'' (1970). ''Charlotte's Web'' was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of ''School Library Journal'' readers, an accomplishment repeated in earlier surveys.〔 ==Life== White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the youngest child of Samuel Tilly White, the president of a piano firm, and Jessie Hart White, the daughter of Scottish-American painter William Hart. Elwyn's older brother Stanley Hart White, known as Stan, a professor of Landscape Architecture and inventor of the Vertical Garden, was influential as a child teaching E.B White to read and explore the natural world.〔Stanley Hart White and the question of ‘(What is Modern )?’ Richard L. Hindle Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Vol. 33, Iss. 3, 2013〕 He served in the army before going to college. White graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921. He picked up the nickname "Andy" at Cornell University, where tradition confers that moniker on any male student surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White. While at Cornell, he worked as editor of ''The Cornell Daily Sun'' with classmate Allison Danzig, who later became a sportswriter for ''The New York Times''. White was also a member of the Aleph Samach and Quill and Dagger societies and Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI). White worked for the United Press (currently the United Press International) and the American Legion News Service in 1921 and 1922. Then he became a cub reporter for ''The Seattle Times'' in 1922 and 1923. Once, when White was stuck on writing a story, a Times editor said, "Just say the words.". He then worked for two years with the Frank Seaman advertising agency as a production assistant and copywriter〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/We-Z/White-E-B.html )〕 before returning to New York City in 1924. Not long after ''The New Yorker'' was founded in 1925, White submitted manuscripts to it. Katharine Angell, the literary editor, recommended to magazine editor and founder Harold Ross that White be taken on as staff. However, it took months to convince him to come to a meeting at the office and further weeks to convince him to agree to work on the premises. Eventually he agreed to work in the office on Thursdays. A few years later in 1929, White and Angell were married. They had a son, Joel White, a naval architect and boat builder, who owned Brooklin Boat Yard in Brooklin, Maine. Katharine's son from her first marriage, Roger Angell, has spent decades as a fiction editor for ''The New Yorker'' and is well known as the magazine's baseball writer. James Thurber described author E.B White as being a quiet man, disliking publicity, who during his time at ''The New Yorker'' would slip out of his office via the fire escape to a nearby branch of Schrafft's to avoid visitors whom he didn't know. White died on October 1, 1985, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine. He is buried in the Brooklin Cemetery beside his wife Katharine, who died in 1977. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「E. B. White」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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