Michael Sims: The Story of Charlotte's Web July 27, 2011

Michael Sims: The Story of Charlotte’s Web: E. B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic.

Free author reading and book signing.

How did E.B. White, editor of The New Yorker and co-author of The Elements of Style, create a children’s novel that still finds new readers almost 60 years after its first publication? Michael Sims, author of three previous non-fiction books including Apollo’s Fire and Adam’s Navel, became interested in the story of how Charlotte’s Web came to be while reading White’s collected letters. Sims’ research brought him back to White’s childhood in Mt. Vernon, New York, where White dealt with his shyness towards people through his relationships with animals. Drawing on these memories years later he created Wilbur, Charlotte, Templeton and the rest of the characters and events that became Charlotte’s Web.

Free Library of Philadelphia
Parkway Central
1901 Vine St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
7:30 pm, Wednesday, July 27. Skyline Room.
215-686-5415

Official Website: http://libwww.freelibrary.org/authorevents/index.cfm?ID=29386&type=2