E·B·怀特(1899年7月11日一1985年10月1日），美国当代著名散文家、评论家，以散文名世，“其文风冷峻清丽，辛辣幽默，自成一格”。生于纽约蒙特弗农，毕业于康奈尔大学。作为《纽约客》 主要撰稿人的怀特一手奠定了影响深远的 “《纽约客》文风”。
怀特对这个世界上的一切都充满关爱，他的道德与他的文章一样山高水长。除了他终生挚爱的随笔之外，他还为孩子们写了三本文学经典：《斯图尔特鼠小弟》（又译《精灵鼠小弟》）、《夏洛的网》与《吹小号的天鹅》，同样受到了儿童与成人们的喜爱。
人物生平
1918年，从美军退役，入康奈尔大学就读，1921年毕业。这期间他曾担任过《西雅图时报》等多家出版机构的记者。
1924年他回到纽约，当了一位广告撰稿人。1926或1927年，他来到《纽约客》杂志社作编辑工作。在《纽约客》工作的这11年来，他为这本杂志写下了大量的散文和诗歌，还有些别的体裁的文章。
1929 年他和凯瑟琳（Katherine）结婚。（1941年他们一起撰写了《美国幽默文库》一书）不久，怀特开始为《新纽约周刊》工作。但是，直到他和他的同事兼朋友James Thurber合写的《性是必需的吗？》一书在同年出版后，怀特才真正引起了文坛的注意。
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第1个回答 2008-10-14
Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985)[1] was an American writer. His acclaimed children's books included Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.
White graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921. He picked up the nickname "Andy" at Cornell, where tradition confers that moniker on any male student surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White. While at Cornell, he worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig who later became a sportswriter for The New York Times. White was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society and Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI). He wrote for The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer and worked as an ad man before returning to New York City in 1924.
He published his first article in The New Yorker magazine in 1925, then joined the staff in 1927 and continued to contribute for six decades. Best recognized for his essays and unsigned "Notes and Comment" pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine. He also served as a columnist for Harper's Magazine from 1938 to 1943.
In the late 1930s, White turned his hand to children's fiction on behalf of a niece, Janice Hart White. His first children's book, Stuart Little, was published in 1945, and Charlotte's Web appeared in 1952. Stuart Little received a lukewarm welcome from the literary community at first, due in part to the reluctance to endorse it by Anne Carroll Moore, the retired but still powerful children's librarian from the New York Public Library. However, both went on to receive high acclaim and in 1970, jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a major prize in the field of children's literature. In the same year, he published his third children's novel, The Trumpet of the Swan. In 1973, that book received the Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award from Kansas, both of which were awarded by students voting for their favorite book of the year.
In 1959, White edited and updated The Elements of Style. This handbook of grammatical and stylistic dos and don'ts for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell. White's rework of the book was extremely well received, and further editions of the work followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999; an illustrated edition followed in 2005. That same year, a New York composer named Nico Muhly premiered a short opera based on the book. The volume is a standard tool for students and writers and remains required reading in many composition classes.
In 1978, White won an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his work as a whole. Other awards he received included a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United States.
White married Katharine Sergeant Angell in 1929, also an editor at The New Yorker, and author (as Katharine White) of Onward and Upward in the Garden. They had a son, Joel White, a naval architect and boatbuilder, who owned Brooklin Boatyard in Brooklin, Maine. Katharine's son from her first marriage, Roger Angell, has spent decades as a fiction editor for The New Yorker and is well-known as the magazine's baseball writer. White was related to James White who was a Methodist preacher in Missouri.
White died on October 1, 1985, at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine. He was buried beside his wife at the Brooklin Cemetery.本回答被网友采纳
White graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921. He picked up the nickname "Andy" at Cornell, where tradition confers that moniker on any male student surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White. While at Cornell, he worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig who later became a sportswriter for The New York Times. White was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society and Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI). He wrote for The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer and worked as an ad man before returning to New York City in 1924.
He published his first article in The New Yorker magazine in 1925, then joined the staff in 1927 and continued to contribute for six decades. Best recognized for his essays and unsigned "Notes and Comment" pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine. He also served as a columnist for Harper's Magazine from 1938 to 1943.
In the late 1930s, White turned his hand to children's fiction on behalf of a niece, Janice Hart White. His first children's book, Stuart Little, was published in 1945, and Charlotte's Web appeared in 1952. Stuart Little received a lukewarm welcome from the literary community at first, due in part to the reluctance to endorse it by Anne Carroll Moore, the retired but still powerful children's librarian from the New York Public Library. However, both went on to receive high acclaim and in 1970, jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a major prize in the field of children's literature. In the same year, he published his third children's novel, The Trumpet of the Swan. In 1973, that book received the Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma and the William Allen White Award from Kansas, both of which were awarded by students voting for their favorite book of the year.
In 1959, White edited and updated The Elements of Style. This handbook of grammatical and stylistic dos and don'ts for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell. White's rework of the book was extremely well received, and further editions of the work followed in 1972, 1979, and 1999; an illustrated edition followed in 2005. That same year, a New York composer named Nico Muhly premiered a short opera based on the book. The volume is a standard tool for students and writers and remains required reading in many composition classes.
In 1978, White won an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his work as a whole. Other awards he received included a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United States.
White married Katharine Sergeant Angell in 1929, also an editor at The New Yorker, and author (as Katharine White) of Onward and Upward in the Garden. They had a son, Joel White, a naval architect and boatbuilder, who owned Brooklin Boatyard in Brooklin, Maine. Katharine's son from her first marriage, Roger Angell, has spent decades as a fiction editor for The New Yorker and is well-known as the magazine's baseball writer. White was related to James White who was a Methodist preacher in Missouri.
White died on October 1, 1985, at his farm home in North Brooklin, Maine. He was buried beside his wife at the Brooklin Cemetery.本回答被网友采纳
第2个回答 2021-08-31
anahiyi的回答翻译：埃尔温·布鲁克斯《E. B .》怀特(1899年7月11日-1985年10月1日)[1]是一位美国作家。他广受好评的儿童书籍包括《夏洛特的网》和《斯图尔特·利特尔》。怀特于1921年毕业于康奈尔大学，获得文学学士学位。他在康奈尔大学获得了“安迪”这个绰号，按照传统，这个绰号是以康奈尔大学联合创始人安德鲁·迪克森·怀特的名字命名的。在康奈尔大学期间，他和同学艾利森·但泽一起担任《康奈尔每日太阳报》的编辑，后者后来成为《纽约时报》的体育记者。怀特也是奎尔和匕首协会和斐伽玛三角洲(斐济)的成员。他为《西雅图时报》和《西雅图邮报》撰稿，并在1924年回到纽约市之前担任广告员。他于1925年在《纽约客》杂志上发表了他的第一篇文章，然后在1927年加入了工作人员，并继续贡献了60年。他的散文和未署名的“笔记和评论”作品最受认可，他逐渐成为《纽约客》最重要的撰稿人，而当时《纽约客》可以说是美国最重要的文学杂志。从1938年到1943年，他还担任过《哈珀杂志》的专栏作家。 20世纪30年代末，怀特代表侄女贾尼斯·哈特·怀特转向儿童小说。他的第一本儿童书《斯图亚特·利特尔》出版于1945年，《夏洛特的网》出现于1952年。起初，斯图尔特·利特尔受到了文学界不冷不热的欢迎，部分原因是安妮·卡罗尔·摩尔不愿意支持它，她是纽约公共图书馆退休但仍然很有影响力的儿童图书管理员。然而，两人都获得了极高的赞誉，并于1970年共同获得了儿童文学领域的主要奖项——劳拉·英格尔斯·怀德奖章。同年，他出版了第三部儿童小说《天鹅的小号》。1973年，这本书获得了俄克拉荷马州的塞阔雅奖和堪萨斯州的威廉·艾伦·怀特奖，这两个奖项都是由投票选出年度最喜爱的书的学生颁发的。 1959年，怀特编辑并更新了《风格元素》。这本为美国英语作家编写的语法和文体注意事项手册是由怀特在康奈尔大学的教授之一小威廉·斯特伦克于1918年编写并出版的。怀特对这本书的修改非常受欢迎，1972年、1979年和1999年又出版了几版；随后在2005年推出了插图版。同年，一位名叫尼可·穆利的纽约作曲家根据这本书首演了一部短剧。这本书是学生和作家的标准工具，在许多作文课上仍然是必读的。 1978年，怀特因其整体作品获得了荣誉普利策奖。他获得的其他奖项包括1963年的总统自由勋章和美国各种文学协会的会员资格。怀特于1929年与凯瑟琳·安吉尔中士结婚，她也是《纽约客》的编辑，也是《花园里的前进和向上》的作者(饰演凯瑟琳·怀特)。他们有一个儿子，乔尔·怀特，他是一名海军建筑师和造船师，拥有缅因州布鲁克林的布鲁克林造船厂。凯瑟琳第一次婚姻的儿子罗杰·安吉尔(Roger Angell)已经为《纽约客》做了几十年的小说编辑，并以该杂志的棒球作家而闻名。怀特与詹姆斯·怀特有亲戚关系，后者是密苏里州的卫理公会牧师。怀特于1985年10月1日在缅因州北布鲁克林的农场家中去世。他被安葬在布鲁克林公墓他妻子的旁边。