E.B. White Home - New York City

E.B. White's home is on East 48th Street.  He lived here with his wife, New Yorker editor Katharine Sergeant, from 1938 to 1945.  White lived in three houses on 48th Street between 1936 and 1957, this being the second.  Between time working as a contributing writer for the New Yorker magazine, White took up writing fiction and while living here he worked on his first children's novel, Stuart Little.  The book traces its origin back to a dream White had in 1926 while traveling by rail from the Shenandoah Valley to New York City.  His story of a boy who behaved like a rat wound up in stories he wrote in the mid-30s to tell to his nehews and nieces.  The idea bounced around for many years until he approached it in earnest in 1944.  By 1945 the book was finished and White had moved just down the street to his third 48th Street home.  

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