"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer. He was a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, co-author of the standard English writing manual The Elements of Style, and author of children's fiction.
His works include:
- Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do (1929): with James Thurber.
- Every Day Is Saturday (1934)
- One Man's Meat (1942)
- Stuart Little (1945)
- Here Is New York (1949)
- Charlotte's Web (1952)
- The Second Tree from the Corner (1954)
- The Elements of Style (1959): William Strunk Jr. was the original author and published this work in 1918. White revised and expanded on the book in 1959.
- The Trumpet of the Swan (1970)
- "Preposterous Parables—III: The Family Which Dwelt Apart" (1937): Adapted into The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973), which was narrated by White.