The History of "the Little Book"

"Over a decade later, White’s New Yorker essay charmed Jack Case, an editor at Macmillan who imagined that 'Elements' could catch fire in an age when English instructors had gone 'whoring after strange gods.' Letters were written, revisions and additions were made, and soon a double-­bylined 'Elements' was inflaming (in positive and negative senses) readers, its success unequivocal: 200,000 copies sold in its first year. (Now 50 years in print, it has sold more than 10 million copies.)"

Jennifer Balderama in The New York Times reviews Mark Garvey's Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White’s "The Elements of Style".