First-person narration is never easy to do well, but longtime New Yorker writer E.B. White showed how it should be done in his personal essay, "Death of a Pig," which ran in The Atlantic in 1948. Betsy O'Donovan analyzes White's account of a farmer's loss in this Nieman Storyboard post: "White remembers (perhaps he wrote) the golden rule of first-person narration, which is to approach readers with humility and a perspective they can share."
