E.B. White Home - New York City

E.B. White's home is on East 48th Street in New York City.  It was here the writer and his wife, New Yorker magazine fiction editor Katharine Sergeant, lived from 1945 to 1957.  This was the third home on 48th Street that White and Sergeant would occupy, and the one they lived in the longest.  White was a contributing writer for the New Yorker magazine, which he began work at in 1927, and where he penned the columns "Talk of the Town" and "Notes and Comment."  His most important contribution to literature, however, were the two children's books he wrote during his years here.  Stuart Little was published in 1945 and traces its origins back to a dream he had in 1926, and subsequent stories he had written in 1935.  He followed this with Charlotte's Web, which was published in 1952.  Like its predecessor, the book was not embraced by the public on its original publication, but both have since become high water marks in children's literature.  The Whites continued living in their Turtle Bay apartment until 1957, when they moved permanently to their summer home in Deer Island, Maine.   

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