Katharine S. White was an editor at The New Yorker magazine for thirty-four years.
[From the Introduction, written by her husband, E.B. White, in Onward and Upward in the Garden, p. xv:] Katharine never belonged to a garden club. I don't think she would have fitted in very well. In fact, had she joined, there is a good chance she would have been expelled for insubordination: she refused to pay any attention to the National Council with its dicta governing the acceptable arrangement of flowers in a container. Her garden was her clubhouse, where there were bugs but no rules.
