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Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, New York - October 1, 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist. He was 86 years old when he died. "No one can write a sentence like White," James Thurber once said of his crisp and graceful writing style. A liberal free-thinker, White often wrote as an ironic onlooker, championing freedom of the individual. His writing ranged from satire to textbooks and children's fiction. His writers' style guide, The Elements of Style , remains a well-regarded text; his three children's books, Charlotte's Web , Stuart Little , and The Trumpet of the Swan , are regarded as classics of the field.
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