TWA Writer: E.B. White

1899 - 1985

It's the birthday of the essayist and children's writer E.B. White, born Elwin Brooks White in Mount Vernon, New York (1899).

After college, he had a few gigs as a journalist, taking time in between to travel across the country with a friend in a Model T and to work on a cruise ship in Alaska. Then he moved back to New York, and he picked up The New York…