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.

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 1918 for ...

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 daily ...

No one seems to have explicitly noted that this is the centennial year of a little book that has (unaccountably) become extremely famous.* Professor William Strunk at Cornell University had it ...

Large numbers for Strunk and White’s little “The Elements of Style”: fifty years, ten million copies sold. 2005 saw an illustrated edition, and now there’s an anniversary edition. “The Elements of ...

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no ...

NORTHAMPTON, Pa. -- William Strunk, age 77, has plead guilty to third degree murder for the shooting death of Michael Powers in Lehigh Township. The shooting occurred June 27, 2022, inside Power's ...

Shakopee mayoral candidate William Strunk is all about connecting with people and having meaningful conversations, and that’s what he’s hoping to do in his bid for mayor. Strunk was born in Shakopee ...