Writings from the New Yorker 1925-1976 (22 page)

Hasley, Louis. “The Talk of the Town and the Country: E. B. White.”
Connecticut Review
Oct 1971: 37-45.

Heldreth, Leonard G. “ ‘Pattern of Life Indelible': E. B. White's Once
More to the Lake.'”
CEA Critic
45 (1982): 31-34.

Howarth, William. “E. B. White at
The New Yorker. “Sewanee Review
93 (1985): 574-83.

Lang, Berel. “Strunk and White and Grammar as Morality.”
Soundings
65 (1982): 23-30.

Martin, Edward A. “Out of the World of Nonsense: Ring Lardner, Frank Sullivan, and E. B. White.”
H. L. Mencken and the Debunkers.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984, pp. 157-76.

Platizky, Roger S. “ ‘Once More to the Lake': A Mythic Interpretation.”
College Literature
15 (1988): 171-79.

Rogers, Barbara. “E. B. White.”
American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies,
Supplement I, Part 2. New York: Scribner's, 1979, pp. 651-81.

Sampson, Edward.
E. B. White.
New York: Twayne, 1974.

———. “E. B. White.”
American Humorists, 1800-1950.
Ed. Stanley Trachtenberg. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 11. Detroit: Gale, 1982, 2: 568-83.

Steinhoff, William R. “ ‘The Door,' ‘The Professor,' ‘My Friend the Poet (Deceased),' ‘The Washable House,' and ‘The Man Out in Jersey.'”
College English
23 (1961): 229-32.

Warshow, Robert S. “E. B. White and
The New Yorker. “ Movies, Comics,
Theatre ir Other Aspects of Popular Culture.
New York: Doubleday, 1962, pp. 105-08.

Yates, Norris. “E. B. White, ‘Farmer/Other.' “
The American Humorist:
Conscience of the Twentieth Century.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1964, pp. 299-320.

 

E. Critical Studies (Works for Children)

Apseloff, Marilyn.
“Charlotte's Web:
Flaws in the Weaving.”
Children's Novels and the Movies.
Ed. Douglas Street. New York: Ungar, 1983, pp. 171-81.

Gagnon, Laurence. “Webs of Concern:
The Little Prince
and
Charlotte's Web. “Children's Literature: The Great Excluded.
Ed. Francelia Butler. Storrs, CT: Children's Literature Association, 1973, 2: 61-66.

Glastonbury, Marion. “E. B. White's Unexpected Items of Enchantment.”
Children's Literature in Education
May 1973: 3-11.

Griffith, John. “Charlotte's Web: A Lonely Fantasy of Love.”
Children's Literature
8 (1980): 111-17.

Kinghorn, Norton D. “The Real Miracle of
Charlotte's Web.” Children's Literature Association Quarterly
11 (1986): 4-9.

Landes, S. E. B. “White's
Charlotte's Web:
Caught in the Web.”
Touch-stones: Reflections on the Best in Children's Literature.
Ed. Perry Nodelman. West Lafayette, IN: Children's Literature Association, 1985, pp. 270-80.

Nodelman, Perry. “Text as Teacher: The Beginning of
Charlotte's Web.”
Children's Literature
13 (1985): 109-27.

Neumeyer, Peter F. “The Creation of
Charlotte's Web:
From Drafts to Book.”
Horn Book
Oct 1982: 489-97; Dec 1982: 617-25.

———. “The Creation of E. B. White's
The Trumpet of the Swan:
The Manuscripts.”
Horn Book
Jan/Feb 1985: 17. (Condensed from paper presented at University of North Carolina.)

———. “What Makes a Good Children's Book? The Texture of
Charlotte ‘s Web. “ South Atlantic Bulletin
May 1979: 66-75.

Rees, David. “Timor Mortis Conturbat Me: E. B. White and Doris Buchanan Smith.”
The Marble in the Water: Essays on Contemporary Writers of Fiction for Children and Young Adults.
Boston: Horn Book, 1980, pp. 68-77.

Sale, Roger.
Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E. B. White. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Shohet, Richard M.
Functions of Voice in Children's Literature.
Dissertation, Harvard University, 1971. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1971, 72-00297.

Solheim, Helene. “Magic in the Web: Time, Pigs, and E. B. White.”
South Atlantic Quarterly
80 (1981): 391-405.

Weales, Gerald. “The Designs of E. B. White.”
Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books: Writings on Their Lives and Works.
Ed. Miriam Hoffman and Eva Samuels. New York: Bowker, 1972, pp. 409-10.

Welty, Eudora. “E. B. White's
Charlotte's Web.” The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews.
New York: Random, 1978, pp. 203-06.

III. S
ECONDARY
S
OURCES
: R
ELATED
S
UBJECTS

 

A. Katharine S. White

Davis, Linda H.
Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White.
New York: Harper, 1987.

Nerney, Brian James.
Katharine S. White,
New Yorker
Editor: Her Influence on the
New Yorker
and on American Literature.
Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1982. Ann Arbor, UMI, 1982, DEP 83-08103.

 

B. James Thurber

Burnstein, Burton.
Thurber: A Biography.
New York: Dodd, 1975.

Holmes, Charles S.
The Clocks of Columbus: The Literary Career of James Thurber.
New York: Atheneum, 1972.

Thurber, Helen, and Edward Weeks, eds.
Selected Letters of James Thurber.
Boston: Little, 1980.

Toombs, Sarah Eleanora.
James Thurber: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism.
New York. Garland, 1987.

 

C. Hamid Ross

Churchill, Allen. “Ross of the
New Yorker. “American Mercury
Aug 1948: 147-55.

Grant, Jane.
Ross,
The New Yorker,
and Me.
New York: Reynal, 1968.

Kramer, Dale.
Ross and
The New Yorker. New York: Doubleday, 1951.

Kramer, Dale, and George R. Clark. “Harold Ross and
The New Yorker. “Harper's
Apr 1943: 510-21.

Rovere, Richard H. “The Magnificent Fussbudget.”
Harper's
Jun 1975: 97-100.

Thurber, James.
The Years with Ross.
Boston: Little, 1959.

 

D. Other Items on
The New Yorker

Bone, Martha Denham.
Dorothy Parker and
New Yorker
Satire.
Dissertation, Middle Tennessee State University, 1985. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1985, DES 85-23970.

Gill, Brendan.
Here at
The New Yorker. New York: Random, 1975.

Houghton, Donald Eugene. The New Yorker:
Exponent of a Cosmopolitan Elite.
Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1955. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1955, 00-13784.

[Ingersoll, Ralph.]
“The New Yorker.” Fortune
Aug 1934: 72-86, 90, 92, 97, 150, 152.

Kahn, Ely Jacques.
About
The New Yorker
and Me: A Sentimental Journal.
New York: Putnam, 1979.

Kramer, Hilton. “Harold Ross's
New Yorker.” Commentary
Aug 1959: 122-27.

Maloney, Russell. “Tilley the Toiler.”
Saturday Review of Literature
Aug 1947: 7-10, 29-32.

Morton, Charles W. “A Try for
The New Yorker”
and “Brief Interlude at
The New Yorker. “Atlantic Monthly
Apr 1963:45-49; May 1963:81-85.

Rouit, Earl. “Modernism and Three Magazines: An Editorial Revolution.”
Sewanee Review
93 (1985): 540-53.

Studies in American Humor
ns 3 (1984): 7-97 (special issue: The New Yorker
From 1925 to 1950).

Weales, Gerald. “Not for the Old Lady in Dubuque.”
The Comic Imagination in American Literature.
Ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1973, pp. 231-46.

About the Author

E. B. W
HITE
, essayist, poet, humorist, and author, began his career as a contributor to
The New Yorker
in 1925, joining the staff in 1927. Over the years he wrote more than twenty books, including the children's classics
Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web,
and
The Trumpet of the Swan,
as well as countless pieces for
The New Yorker,
signed and unsigned. Among the many awards presented to E. B. White during his lifetime were the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Essays and Criticism (1960), the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (1970), and the National Medal for Literature (1971). He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, and in 1973 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

 

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