This Week in Literary History: July 11-July 18

July 11: E.B. White, the author of Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little and one of America’s premier essayists was born in Mount Vernon, New York on this day in 1899.

 

This Week in Literary History: March 28 to April 2

March 28: Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock dies in Toronto on this day in 1944 at aged 74.