Here is New York

Author(s): E.B. White

Essays & Letters

This short essay, written in the sweltering summer heat of 1949, describes the author's stroll around Manhattan, and remains the quintessential love letter to the city, by one of America's foremost literary figures. This edition, published last year in the U.S. to mark the 100 anniversary of E.B. White's birth in 1899, includes a brief foreword by White, written in 1976, and a new introduction by Roger Angell of the New Yorker.

About the author:
E.B. White is best known to us as the author of children's books, including Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little. He was also a New Yorker journalist who won many awards for his writing including, in 1978, the Pulitzer Prize.

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"Thoroughly American and utterly beautiful" is how William Shawn, his editor at the New Yorker, described E. B. White's prose. At the magazine, White developed a pure and plain-spoken literary style; his writing was characterized by wit, sophistication, optimism, and moral steadfastness. In 1978 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the body of his work. E. B. White died in 1985.

General Fields

  • : 9781892145024
  • : New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
  • : New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
  • : 0.181
  • : July 1999
  • : 185mm X 5mm X 135mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : E.B. White
  • : Paperback
  • : 990+
  • : English
  • : 917.4710443
  • : 58
  • : b/w photographs