It was performed at the New York Public Library in October 2005. Maira Kalman, who provided the illustrations for The Elements of Style Illustrated (2005, see below), asked Nico Muhly to compose a cantata based on the book. Mark Garvey relates the history of this writing manual in Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style (2009). In the ensuing four decades, more than ten million copies of three editions have been sold. White's expansion and modernization of Strunk and Tenney's 1935 revised edition yielded the writing style manual informally known as 'Strunk & White', the first edition of which sold approximately two million copies in 1959. White, is an American English writing style guide. Macmillan and Company subsequently commissioned White to revise The Elements for a 1959 edition (Strunk had died in 1946). The Elements of Style (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. Weeks later, White wrote a feature story about Strunk's devotion to lucid English prose. White, who had studied writing under Strunk in 1919 but had since forgotten 'the little book' that he described as a 'forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English'.

In 1957, at The New Yorker, the style guide reached the attention of E.B. To mark the anniversary, its publisher has released an elegantly bound, gold. White and William Strunk Jr., turns 50 on Thursday. Tenney revised it as The Elements and Practice of Composition (1935). The Elements of Style, the definitive writing guide by E.B. (Harcourt republished it in 52-page format in 1920.) Later, for publication, he and editor Edward A. wrote The Elements of Style in 1918 and privately published it in 1919, for in-house use at the university. Physical Information: 0.16' H x 6' W x 9' (0.25 lbs) 76 pagesĬornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr. Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platformīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions

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