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Happy Birthday...E.B. White!

July 11, 2012

Reblogged from Humor in America:

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Tracy Wuster

For two follow-up posts on this question, see:

Sharon McCoy, "Is a Joke Really Like a Frog?" and my piece here.

Born July 11, 1899.  White is famous for children's books, style guides, and his work at the New Yorker, but in humor studies, he is probably best known for his introduction to the 1941 book, …

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