LIBRARY MATTERS

Contributed article
Published: July 2, 2008

July 11 is the birthday of a legendary American writer E.B. White, who won the hearts of millions of children with a book that was originally intended for just one: his niece, Jane.
Stuart Little, published in 1945, was an immediate success, and his two other novels for children also became classics. Perhaps the most famous is Charlotte’s Web, the moving story of an unusual friendship between a pig and a spider, which has sold more than 45 million copies.
Born in 1899 in Mount Vernon, New York, White was a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker. He famously shared his writing tricks in his 1959 update to William Strunk Jr.’s The Elements of Style. Learn more about E.B. White by checking the Biography Resource Center from the Library’s online database page: http://www.jmrl.org/on-databases.htm. The Library also has interesting books with more information on the life and legacy of this unique writer.
Katharine and E.B. White: An Affectionate Memoir by Isabel Russell
Letters of E.B. White collected and edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth
Besides having copies of the books listed above, the Greene County Library has DVDs of both Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web. Check with the library staff to get the book or DVD that you want.