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005			20190729104354.0
008			101029s2011 xx af 001 0 eng d
020			_a9780802777546 (hardcover)
020			_a0802777546 (hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)676728647
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050		4	_aPS3545 .H5187 _bS56 2010
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100	1		_aSims, Michael, _d1958-
245	0	4	_aThe story of Charlotte's Web : _bE. B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic / _cMichael Sims.
260			_aNew York : _bWalker & Co., _c2011.
300			_a307 p., [8] p. of plates : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographic references and index.
520			_aAs 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 life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It is all the more impressive, therefore, how many people have felt a kinship with E. B. White. With Charlotte's Web, which has gone on to sell more than 45 million copies, the man William Shawn called "the most companionable of writers" lodged his own character, the avuncular author, into the hearts of generations of readers. In this book the author shows how White solved what critic Clifton Fadiman once called "the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole" by mining the raw ore of his childhood friendship with animals in Mount Vernon, New York, translating his own passions and contradictions, delights and fears, into an all time classic. Blending White's correspondence with the likes of Ursula Nordstrom, James Thurber, and Harold Ross, the E. B. White papers at Cornell, and the archives of HarperCollins and the New Yorker into his own narrative, the author brings to life the shy boy whose animal stories, real and imaginery, made him famous around the world.
600	1	0	_aWhite, E. B. _q(Elwyn Brooks), _d1899-1985.
650		0	_aAuthors, American _y20th century _vBiography.
650		0	_aChildren's stories _xAuthorship.
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