E. B. White

E. B. White was an American writer and essayist who served as a contributing editor for The New Yorker magazine. He also wrote children's books, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). With William Strunk Jr., he co-wrote The Elements of Style, an English-language style guide. Kurt Vonnegut praised him as one of the most admirable prose stylists the country had produced.