Works
- Just So Stories (the poem I Keep Six Honest Serving-Men, after The Elephant's Child), 1902
In Thinking Tools
Known for
His verse naming What, Why, When, How, Where, and Who as six honest serving-men is the best-known statement of the questions journalists call the Five Ws and H. He popularized the list; the questions go back to Aristotle's elements of circumstance and classical rhetoric.