E. B. White writing in his boat shed overlooking Allen Cove, 1976, using a portable manual typewriter. Photo by Jill Krementz, from her book, The Writer’s Image.
Someone much more familiar with typewriters may be able to identify the machine.
Don’t you love the way the water looks as though it’s a painting, a work of art, hanging on the wall?
Turns out White was very fond of Dachsunds.
E. B. White at work, with his Dachsund, Minnie, looking on.
More:
- Profile of White at Scholastic Books
- “E. B. White, The Art of the Essay No. 1,” Paris Review, a marvelous melange featuring a remembrance by his stepson, Roger Angell, and an interview by George Plimpton and Frank H. Crowther
Below the fold, the Tweet that inspired this post, from Jon Winokur.
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