“A splendid exercise in scholarship and literary analysis―and fun to read.” ―“New and Recommended,” New York Times Book Review Here is a richly detailed and vivid biography of the man who wrote Charlotte’s Web , The Trumpet of the Swan , and Stuart Little ; the White of “Strunk and White”; the writer whose style and humor were so important in distinguishing The New Yorker’s first thirty years. Included are some fifty photographs and drawings, as well as manuscript facsimiles. Here is a richly detailed and vivid biography of the man who wrote 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Trumpet of the Swan', and 'Stuart Little'; the writer whose style and humor were so important in distinguishing 'The New Yorker's' first thirty years. Included are some photographs and drawings, as well as manuscript facsimiles. Scott Elledge was Goldwin Smith Professor of English Emeritus at Cornell University. He was the author of E. B. White: A Biography and Wider than the Sky: Poems Selected for Young Readers . He was the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Paradise Lost , Eighteenth-Century Critical Essays , and Milton’s " Lycidas " : An Approach to Criticism .