Michael Sims is the author of several books, including The Story of Charlotte's Web, which was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and Boston Globe. He edits The Connoisseur's Collection series of Victorian anthologies, including Dracula's Guest, The Dead Witness, and The Phantom Coach.
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As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats—White knew all of these characters in the barns an... SEE MORE