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Letters of E. B. White
E.B. White
Revised Edition
HarperCollins
December 2006
On Sale: November 21, 2006
736 pages
ISBN: 0060757086
EAN: 9780060757083
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"Congratulations on your manly attempt to make me into a
literary character," E. B. White wrote in a letter to his
biographer. "It isn't going to work, but it makes great
reading. I was in stitches much of the way, recalling my
Early Ineptitude, my Early Sorrows, my Immaculate Romancing.
What a mess I was! No wonder my father worried about me."
After the biography was published (in 1984), White offered
this insider's review: "I wish you the joy of the book and
am only sorry my life wasn't crowded with exciting, bawdy,
violent events. I know how hard it is to write about a
fellow who spends most of his time crouched over a
typewriter. That was my fate, too." Letters of E. B. White touches on these and other subjects,
including the New Yorker editor who became his wife; their
dachshund, Fred, with his "look of fake respectability"; and
White's literary colleagues, from Harold Ross and James
Thurber to Groucho Marx and John Updike and, later, Senator
Edmund S. Muskie and Garrison Keillor. Now updated with
newly released letters from 1976 to 1985, additional
photographs, and a new foreword by John Updike, this
unparalleled collection of letters from one of America's
favorite essayists, poets, and storytellers now spans nearly
a century, from 1908 to 1985.
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