The Story of Charlotte's Web

E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of An American Classic

As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E.B. White was obeying that oft repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats, White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire…

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