The Ubiquitous E.B. White

E. B. White is one of those writers you are liable to meet again and again in the course of a reading life, each time wearing a different expression. To children, he is the author of the classic animal tales Charlotte's Web andStuart Little; to college students, he is half of Strunk and White, the authoritative guides behind The Elements of Style. Later on, he may turn up as the urbane humorist who helped define the voice of the early New Yorker,or the Maine farmer who learned about enduring values from tending his chickens and pigs, or the earnest liberal who upheld free speech during the McCarthy period.