William Strunk was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Cincinnati in 1890 and a PhD at Cornell University in 1896. He spent the academic year 1898–99 at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, where he studied morphology and philology. He taught English at Cornell for 46 years. In 1918, Strunk privately published The Elements of Style for the use of his Cornell students, who gave it its nickname, “the little book.” |
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