<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Katharine Sergeant (m . 1929; d . 1977) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Signature </Th> </Tr> <P> Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899--October 1, 1985) was an American writer and a world federalist . For more than fifty years, he was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine . He was also a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as Strunk & White . In addition, he wrote books for children, including Stuart Little (c. 1945), Charlotte's Web (c. 1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (c. 1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel . </P> <P> 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 the inventor of the Vertical Garden, taught E.B. White to read and to explore the natural world . White graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor of arts degree in 1921 . He got the nickname "Andy" at Cornell, where tradition confers that moniker on any male student whose surname is 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") fraternity . </P>

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