The Elements of Style, the definitive writing guide by E.B. White and William Strunk Jr., turns 50 on Thursday. To mark the anniversary, its publisher has released an elegantly bound, gold ...

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.

Ann Hall wishes people would return to William Strunk and E.B. White’s “The Elements of Style.” Currently, she’s a professor in the comparative humanities department at the University of Louisville.

First published in 1918, the slender book was written by William Strunk Jr., then overhauled and expanded by E. B. White in 1959. Generations of students and writers have kept well-thumbed copies ...

Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of William Strunk and E.B. White's Elements of Style, the grammar manual used by millions of students, including commentator Marc Acito.

In The Wall Street Journal, Mark Garvey celebrates the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White's famous book, "The Elements of Style." The authors taught us that clear thinking and clear writing go ...

Quite a few readers, my wife included, were visibly shaken by my suggestion that we burn our copies of The Elements of Style, the famous “little book” originally written by William Strunk in ...

To read the back cover of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style," you'd think it was God's gift to the English-speaking world — "excellent," "timeless," "delightful," " … should be the ...

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 ...

Team Stickler is best represented by E.B. White, a onetime student of William J. Strunk, who in the late 1950s added about 50 pages to his former professor’s short classroom guide, ...