Charlotte's Web | About the Author
Born Elwyn Brooks White on July 11, 1899, to Jesse Hart White and Samuel T. White, E. B. White grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, a suburb of New York City. The youngest child in a large family, born at the beginning of his father's greatest prosperity, White enjoyed a childhood of unusual privilege for those days. He had the first bicycle in the neighborhood, and at age twelve, his father presented him with a canoe. White was an inquisitive, open child who attended Mount Vernon public schools, summered in Maine, and eventually enrolled at Cornell University, where he earned a bachelor's...
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