“I would say that writing, in its own way, is a rival to therapy.”
From "The Little Prince and Other Sociopaths I've Dated" to "Charlotte's Web of Lies"––all your favorite childhood stories, now reimagined with the crippling anxieties of adulthood.
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White on the beach with his dog Minnie
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| Born | Elwyn Brooks White July 11, 1899 Mount Vernon, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 1, 1985 (aged 86) North Brooklin, Maine, U.S. |
| Education | Cornell University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse(s) | Katharine Sergeant (m. 1929; d. 1977) |
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Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)[1] was an American writer and a world federalist.[2] 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.[3]
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A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel. Don Marquis’s famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet in a former life, Archy was reincarnated as a bug who expresses himself by diving headfirst onto a typewriter. His sidekick Mehitabel is a streetwise feline who claims to have been Cleopatra in a previous life. As E. B. White wrote in his now-classic introduction, the Archy poems “contain cosmic reverberations along with high comedy” and have “the jewel-like perfection of poetry.” Adorned with George Herriman’s whimsical illustrations and including White’s introduction, our Pocket Poets selection—the only hardcover Archy and Mehitabel in print—is a beautiful volume, and perfectly sized for its tiny hero.
READ an excerpt from the introduction by E.B. White here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-best-of-archy-and…/
Some illustrations by Garth Williams for E. B. White's "Charlotte's Web"
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