Life described White:
He is the small-town boy who made good at home.
To the small-town man who envies the glamour of the city, he is living assurance that small-town life may be preferable.
To the city man who looks back with nostalgia on a small-town youth, he is a living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense.

The city of Emporia raised $25,000 in war bonds during World War II and were granted naming rights for a B-29 bomber in early 1945.
They unsurprisingly chose to name it after their most famous citizen, William Allen White.
This bomber was sent with a crew of men to the island of Tinian in the South Pacific and was part of the same bomber squadron that the Enola Gay was in.

During World War Two, the William Allen White Liberty ship was launched from Richmond, California on May 8, 1944.

His autobiography, which was published posthumously in 1946 won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

In 1948 a 3¢ stamp was made in his honor by the U.S. Postal Service.

The University of Kansas Journalism School is named for him, as is the library building at Emporia State University.
There are also two awards the William Allen White Foundation has created: The William Allen White Award for outstanding Journalistic merit and the Children's Book Award.

The town of Emporia honors him to this day with city limits signs on I-35, US-50, and K-99 announcing "Home of William Allen White."

White's image is used by the band They Might Be Giants in stagecraft and music videos.
Life described White:
He is the small-town boy who made good at home. To the small-town man who envies the glamour of the city, he is living assurance that small-town life may be preferable. To the city man who looks back with nostalgia on a small-town youth, he is a living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense.
The city of Emporia raised $25,000 in war bonds during World War II and were granted naming rights for a B-29 bomber in early 1945. They unsurprisingly chose to name it after their most famous citizen, William Allen White. This bomber was sent with a crew of men to the island of Tinian in the South Pacific and was part of the same bomber squadron that the Enola Gay was in.
During World War Two, the William Allen White Liberty ship was launched from Richmond, California on May 8, 1944.
His autobiography, which was published posthumously in 1946 won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
In 1948 a 3¢ stamp was made in his honor by the U.S. Postal Service.
The University of Kansas Journalism School is named for him, as is the library building at Emporia State University. There are also two awards the William Allen White Foundation has created: The William Allen White Award for outstanding Journalistic merit and the Children's Book Award.
The town of Emporia honors him to this day with city limits signs on I-35, US-50, and K-99 announcing "Home of William Allen White."
White's image is used by the band They Might Be Giants in stagecraft and music videos.
William Allen White