Cornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr.
White, who had studied writing under Strunk in 1919 but had since forgotten "the little.
In 1957, at The New Yorker, the Style guide reached the attention of E.
B.
Tenney revised it as The Elements and Practice of Composition (1935). (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.
Cornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr