E.B. White - American essayist, poet, and children’s book author, 1899-1985. E.B. White American essayist, poet, and children’s book author, 1899-1985. More than once, Elwyn Brooks White pretended ignorance of literary affairs. In fact, when one critic sent him an exhaustive scholarly exegesis of White’s children’s classic, Charlottes Web (1952),

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