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Along came Harold Ross, the demanding young editor of a new magazine called The New Yorker. White submitted pieces to the fledgling publication, one of which appeared in an early issue. Before long he was invited to take a staff position. Reluctant to report to any office on a fixed schedule, he nevertheless showed up for an interview. There he met Katharine Angell, the fiction editor. He remembered later that "she had a lot of black hair and the knack of making a young contributor feel at ease." He did not know at that moment that the course...
...Katharine fell in love and married, after her divorce, in 1929. They lived happily ever after until her death in 1977. He also joined The New Yorker and, along with Founding Editor Ross and Contributor James Thurber, gave the magazine its voice and character. White could do, and did, everything Ross wanted. He took over "Notes and Comment," the opening section of each week's "Talk of the Town." These paragraphs did not take political sides but mused, sometimes acerbically, on the passing scene. Using the editorial "we," White once described how this process worked: "We write as we please...
White was most famous for his popular children's book "Charlotte's Web," as well as for his witty essays in The New Yorker magazine. In 1959, he revised the grammar usage reference text, "The Elements of Style," originally written by his college mentor William Strunk Jr. and now commonly referred to as "Strunk and White...
White began his half-century affiliation with The New Yorker in 1925, contributing sketches, poems, and humorous essays like the "Go Climb a Tree Department." In 1929 he married Katharine Sergeant Angell, The New Yorker's first fiction editor...
That should wipe a smirk off anyone's face. Even a New Yorker...