With this letter, Macmillan editor Jack Case sent E.B. White his first copy of the newly published Elements of Style: "Here it is — lean and clean and sound as a dollar, which is what it costs.

William Strunk's and E.B. White's little book "The Elements of Style" has stood the test of time. It was copyrighted by Strunk in 1918. In 1919 it was required reading at Cornell University.

Dorothy Parker Last time I wrote about Maine author E.B. White who penned several popular children’s books and, in 1959, revised and expanded William Strunk Jr.’s popular little writing guide.

A reader of "The Elements of Style" once sent E. B. White a clipping of a book review that misquoted William Strunk as having advised writers to "Use less words!" White wrote back: "I often wish ...

Professor William Strunk at Cornell University had it privately published in 1918 at a press owned by W.F. Humphrey in Geneva, N.Y., under the title No one seems to have explicitly noted that this ...

What to get with that gift card that’s thickening your wallet, first installment: Remember “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk and E.B. White, the battered paperback reference on ...