White wrote an essay about it in the July 1957 issue of The New Yorker, introducing what would eventually become a bible for countless writers: "The Elements of Style" was Will Strunk's parvum opus, his attempt to cut the vast tangle of English rhetoric down to size and write its rules and principles on the head of a pin. In 1957, White, who wrote the children's classics Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, rediscovered a brief guide to style by Strunk, his professor at Cornell University. To mark the anniversary, its publisher has released an elegantly bound, gold-embossed hardcover edition containing notes about the book's history. White and William Strunk Jr., turns 50 on Thursday. The Elements of Style, the definitive writing guide by E.B. White wrote of William Strunk Jr., his former professor, "He was a memorable man, friendly and funny."ĭivision of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Kroch Library, Cornell University
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