On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction: 30th Anniversary Edition by William Zinsser

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction: 30th Anniversary Edition by William Zinsser

The classic works on the art of nonfiction writing are now in a complete package for your listening pleasure.

This expanded CD collection presents William Zinsser's On Writing Well, the classic teaching book that has sold more than 1 million copies, together with a new 90-minute section that tells you how to write a memoir.

Based on a course that Zinsser taught at Yale, On Writing Well has long been praised by writers, teachers and students for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It's for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day. Whether you want to write about people and places, science and technology, business, sports or the arts, this is the definitive guide to the craft of nonfiction.

Part I of this collection--on memoir, personal history and family history--tells you in helpful detail how to write the story of your life: who you are, who you once were, and what heritage you come from. Throughout, Zinsser refers to the work of many successful memoir writers, including Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, Russell Baker and Eudora Welty, to demonstrate how they solved the problems of selection, compression, focus and tone that every memoir writer struggles with.

William Zinsser is author of the best-selling On Writing Well and fifteen other books. He has been a writer, columnist, critic, and editor at leading newspapers and magazines as well as general editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club. During the 1970s he was master of Branford College at Yale University, where he taught nonfiction writing and where he first met Willie Ruff. On the faculty of the New School University in New York City, Mr. Zinsser is a part-time jazz pianist and a student of Dwike Mitchell.

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ISBN 13	9780061713569
ISBN 10	0061713562
Title	On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction: 30th Anniversary Edition
Author	William Zinsser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harpercollins Publishers, New
Year published	2008-01-01
Number of pages	0
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