# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-strunk-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:48:38.803Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-strunk-jr"
name: "William Strunk, Jr."
slug: "william-strunk-jr"
description: "William Strunk Jr. was an American professor of English at Cornell University and the author of The Elements of Style (1918). After his former student E. B. White revised and extended the book, The Elements of Style became an influential guide to writing in the English language, informally known as “Strunk & White”."
tagline: "American professor of English literature and writer"
gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1869-07-01"
deathDate: "1946-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             25
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  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
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    title: "William Strunk Jr."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump