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E.B White

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• He was born in 1899.

• He died aged 86 in 1985.

• He acquired the nickname Andy. 

• White's career began when he joined, "The New Yorker magazine" as writer and contributing editor. 

• E.B White's inspiration for the book Charlotte's Web was seeing a spider spinning an egg sac in his barn in Maine.

• He fought Alzheimer's disease.