Publication Order of Children’s Books
| Stuart Little | 1945 |
| Charlotte’s Web | 1952 |
| The Trumpet of the Swan | 1970 |
Publication Order of Poetry Collections
| The Lady Is Cold | 1929 |
| The Fox of Peapack and Other Poems | 1938 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do (With: James Thurber) | 1929 |
| Every Day Is Saturday | 1934 |
| Farewell to Model T | 1936 |
| Quo Vadimus? Or, The Case for the Bicycle | 1939 |
| One Man’s Meat | 1942 |
| The Wild Flag | 1946 |
| Here Is New York | 1949 |
| The Second Tree from the Corner | 1954 |
| The Elements of Style (With: William Strunk Jr.) | 1959 |
| The Points of My Compass | 1962 |
| Letters of E. B. White | 1976 |
| Essays of E. B. White | 1977 |
| Poems and Sketches of E. B. White | 1981 |
| Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976 | 1990 |
About E. B. White
E. B. White (1899 to 1985) was an American writer and essayist who contributed to The New Yorker for nearly six decades and wrote three children’s novels: “Stuart Little”, “Charlotte’s Web” and “The Trumpet of the Swan”. He was also co-author of the style guide “The Elements of Style”.
Elwyn Brooks White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, on 11 July 1899, the sixth and youngest child of Samuel Tilly White, the president of a piano firm, and Jessie Hart White. He graduated from Cornell University in 1921, where he edited The Cornell Daily Sun and picked up the nickname “Andy”. He then worked for the United Press, as a cub reporter on The Seattle Times and for an advertising agency before returning to New York City in 1924.
White published his first article in The New Yorker in 1925 and joined the staff in 1927, becoming best known for his essays and the unsigned “Notes and Comment” pieces. In 1929 he married Katharine Angell, the magazine’s literary editor, and in the same year he and James Thurber wrote “Is Sex Necessary?”. From 1938 to 1943 he was also a columnist for Harper’s Magazine, and “One Man’s Meat” collects those columns. “Here Is New York” (1949) is a short book based on an article commissioned by Holiday magazine.
He turned to children’s fiction in the late 1930s on behalf of a niece, Janice Hart White. “Stuart Little” was published in 1945 and “Charlotte’s Web” in 1952. “Charlotte’s Web” was named a Newbery Honor book, and in a 2012 School Library Journal survey it was ranked first among the top one hundred children’s novels. “The Trumpet of the Swan” followed in 1970, the year White received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal.
In 1959 White edited and updated “The Elements of Style”, a handbook first written in 1918 by William Strunk Jr., one of his professors at Cornell. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, and in 1978 a special Pulitzer Prize cited his letters, essays and the full body of his work.
White died on 1 October 1985 at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine. “Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976” was published in 1990.