TIL E.B. White went by "Andy"

Which put me in mind of Andy from Toy Story.

Letters of Note published a letter he wrote to his editor on why he wrote Charlotte's Web. Well, kind of why. I also am delighted by the idea that he took Charlotte's egg sac home with him and let her kids make webs on his dresser. And I admit that in practice I would have been kind of freaked out. EB White: A book is a sneeze