Why read Katharine and E.B. White?

Book cover of Katharine and E.B. White: An Affectionate Memoir

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Isabel Russell gives readers a portrait, both humorous and touching, of one of the great literary marriages of our time and of two people whose love for one another and their work burned as brightly in their old age as it did in their youth.

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1 author picked Katharine and E.B. White as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Gene Brewer

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I’ve long loved the essays of E.B. White, the great New Yorker writer, and the memoir by his part-time secretary Isabel Russell gets up close and personal. The setting is the Whites’ home in coastal Maine, and the daily warmth and love between the two literary giants (Katharine was a long-time editor at the same magazine) is very apparent. I could almost smell dinner cooking in the kitchen below.

The best thing about the book was the unending wit displayed by Mr. White and the repartee between him and his secretary. This is a book to be savored and read…

From Gene's 3 favorite reads in 2023.