Editing E. B. White (section)

==Personal life==
White was shy around women, claiming he had "too small a heart, too large a pen".<ref>{{cite web|title=Is Sex Necessary?|url= https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2018/9/7/is-sex-necessary |website=The Attic|access-date=8 September 2018}}</ref> But in 1929, after an affair that led to [[Katharine Sergeant Angell White|Katharine Angell]]'s divorce, she and White were married. They had a son, [[Joel White]], a naval architect and boat builder, who later owned Brooklin Boat Yard in [[Brooklin, Maine]]. Katharine's son from her first marriage, [[Roger Angell]], spent decades as a fiction editor for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' and was well known as the magazine's [[baseball]] writer.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Remnick |first=David |date=2022-05-20 |title=Remembering Roger Angell, Hall of Famer |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/remembering-roger-angell-hall-of-famer |access-date=2024-02-23 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref>

In her foreword to ''[[Charlotte's Web]]'', [[Kate DiCamillo]] quotes White as saying, "All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world."<ref>{{cite book|last=White|first=E.B.|title=Charlotte's Web|year=1952|publisher=Harper|isbn=978-0-06-440055-8|page=ii|url=https://archive.org/details/charlottessweb00whit}}</ref> White also loved animals, farms and farming implements, [[seasons]], and [[weather]] formats.{{citation needed|date = December 2023}}

[[James Thurber]] described White as a quiet man who disliked publicity and who, during his time at ''The New Yorker'', would slip out of his office via the fire escape to a nearby branch of [[Schrafft's (restaurant chain)|Schrafft's]] to avoid visitors he didn't know: {{Blockquote|text=Most of us, out of a politeness made up of faint curiosity and profound resignation, go out to meet the smiling stranger with a gesture of surrender and a fixed grin, but White has always taken to the fire escape. He has avoided the Man in the Reception Room as he has avoided the interviewer, the photographer, the microphone, the rostrum, the literary tea, and the [[Stork Club]]. His life is his own. He is the only writer of prominence I know of who could walk through [[Algonquin Hotel|the Algonquin]] lobby or between the tables at Jack and Charlie's and be recognized only by his friends.|author=James Thurber|title=E.B.W.|source="Credos and Curios"}}

Later in life, White developed [[Alzheimer's disease]]. He died on October 1, 1985, at his [[E. B. White House|farm home]] in [[Brooklin, Maine|North Brooklin, Maine]].<ref name="New York Times Obituary">{{cite news|last=Mitgang|first=Herbert|title=E.B. White, Essayist and Stylist, Dies| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/02/books/eb-white-essayist-and-stylist-dies.html|access-date=July 25, 2024|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 2, 1985}}</ref> He is buried in the Brooklin Cemetery beside Katharine, who died in 1977.<ref>{{cite book|last=Elledge|first=Scott|title=E.B. White: A Biography|year=1984|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York|isbn=978-0-393-01771-7|url=https://archive.org/details/ebwhite00scot}}</ref>