William Strunk|Jr

William Strunk, Jr was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 1 July 1869. He went on to have a long career as an educator after receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1890 and a PhD from Cornell University in 1896—where he taught English for forty-six years. Strunk wrote and had privately printed the first edition of The Elements of Style for his university in 1918. In 1935, a revised edition titled The Elements and Practice of Composition, co-authored by Edward A. Tenney, was published. Strunk is best known as an editor, having worked with titles by reputed authors such as William Shakespeare, John Dryden and James Fenimore Cooper. His only other book, English Metres, was published locally in 1922. Strunk died in Ithaca, New York, on 26 September 1946.