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White, Elwin Brooks, writer; b. Mount Vernon, N. Y., July 11, 1899; s. Samuel Tilly and Jessie (Hart) W.; A. B., Cornell U., 1921; m. Katharine Sergeant Angell, Nov. 13, 1921; 1 son, Joel McCoun. Began as reporter, 1921; later free lance writer and contbg. editor New Yorker Magazine (now editorial writer and contbr.). Served as pvt. U.S. Army, 1918. Mem. Phi Gamma Delta. Author: The Lady Is Cold (poems), 1929; Is Sex Necessary?, (with J. Thurber), 1929; Every Day Is Saturday, 1934; The Fox of Peapack, 1938; Quo Vadimus, 1939. Editor: Ho Hum, 1931; Another Ho Hum, 1932; A Subtreasury of American Humor (with Katharine S. White), 1941. Home: North Brooklin, Maine. Office: 25 W. 43rd St., New York, N. Y.

WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA, volume 22, 1942-1943