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The son of a piano producer,Elwyn Brooks White was born in Mount Vernon in a wealthy family.And he was raised with the mix of sophistication(高水平) and common sense that would mark his writing.
After graduation,Elwyn Brooks White spent a year as a newspaper reporter in New York City,and then decided to drive across the country with a friend.The trip gave Elwyn
Brooks White a lifetime of anecdotes.“When they ran out of money,” Elwyn Brooks White's friend,James Thurber,noted,“they played for their supper and their gasoline on an interesting musical instrument that Elwyn Brooks White had made out of some pieces of wire and an old shoe.”
When Elwyn Brooks White returned to New York City in the mid1920s,he spent a few years bouncing between advertising jobs and unemployment before trying his hand again at writing.Not very seriously,he sent some essays to a new magazine called The New Yorker.Since its founding in 1925,the magazine had struggled to find its_niche,and Elwyn Brooks White's work helped put The New Yorker on the map.His essays were funny and sophisticated;they spoke equally to socialites(社会名流) and cab drivers,professors and repairmen.Through his essays,which he wrote for nearly 50 years,Elwyn Brooks White helped give The New Yorker its voice and identity.
In 1945,already a leading literary figure,Elwyn Brooks White switched to his second occupation on writing children's books.He moved from New York to a farm in Maine,where he raised chickens and geese.Seeking a way to amuse his nieces and nephews,Elwyn Brooks White started to write stories for them.“Children were always after me to tell them a story and I found I couldn't do it,”
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