Weaving Together the Tale of E.B. White

On January 3, 2010 we dedicated the full third hour of our show to profile another of Michael Enright's heroes... but this one's real---the writer and essayist E.B. White.

He wrote some of the most beguiling children's books ever, including Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.

White was a mainstay of The New Yorker magazine almost from its first issue in 1925. He was a master of the essay and of letter writing. He lived in an age when people wrote letters, not e-mails, and they are a joy to read.

His granddaughter Martha White has revised his letters and the result is an engrossing history of much of 20th Century America as seen by one of its most astute observers.

 

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