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The Story Of Charlotte's Web: E.B. White's Eccentric Life In Nature And The Birth Of An American Classic (2011)

by Michael Sims(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0802777546 (ISBN13: 9780802777546)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Walker & Company

review 1: The title is misleading. There really didn't seem that EB White was all that eccentric. He was a a great author who took some time to develop his craft and vision, and to meet a life companion. When he did, the results were amazing. His other tremendous contribution, of which I had been unaware before reading this book, was to New Yorker magazine. What emerges in this portrait is a very profound role in American writing in the 20th century. The book is a very thoughtful and sympathetic biography and a pleasure to read.
review 2: Have to say I was bored for the first half, which in my opinion would have been better condensed (nothing much exciting happens in White's life, not a lot of conflict or tension, and Sims is a competent writer but not the kind of stel... morelar that would make many pages of this stuff entertaining). Sims does a great job of the second half though, explaining how White came up with, researched, and revised and revised the ideas and words that would become Charlotte's Web. I couldn't stop listening to this part. Wannabe writers should check this out -- always helpful to see how literary giants wrestled with their fledgling words and felt that they were inadequate to the task! Narration was fine. less

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