Author

Books by Strunk & White

William Strunk Jr. (1869–1946) was a professor of English at Cornell University, where he taught for nearly forty years. He wrote the original version of The Elements of Style as a class handout in 1919 and self-published it shortly afterward. E.B. White (1899–1985) was an American author, essayist, and long-time contributor to The New Yorker. He is also known for the children's books Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little. White had been Strunk's student at Cornell and was commissioned to revise and expand the original text for the 1959 Macmillan edition that made the book famous.