Elwyn Brooks (E.B.) White, born July 11, 1899, is probably best known for his book Charlotte's Web. It is a must-read for every person and has been voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers.
Before writing, White worked as an editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, a cub reporter for the Seattle Times and was on staff at the New Yorker after it was founded in 1925. It wasn't until the late 1930's that White began writing children's books and published Stuart Little in 1945, and, in 1952, Charlotte's Web, which receiveda Newbery Honor from the American Library Association.
White went on to win the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970. His third novel, The Trumpet of the Swan won the Sequoya Award from Oklahoma. I was 8 years old when it was published, but I have never heard of this one.
He passed away October 1, 1985 from Alzheimer's disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White
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