William Zinsser (1922–2015)
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William Knowlton Zinsser (October 7, 1922 - May 12, 2015) was an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher. He began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he worked as a feature writer, drama editor, film critic and editorial writer. Throughout the 1970s, mehr anzeigen Zinsser taught writing at Yale University. He wrote 18 books, including On Writing Well, which is in its 17th edition. Zinsser died at the age of 92 in Manhattan on May 12, 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: William Zinsser, author of the classic On Writing Well. Copied from On Memoir, Truth and 'Writing Well'.
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- Zinsser, William Knowlton
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- 1922-10-07
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- 2015-05-12
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- New York, New York, USA
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- New York, New York, USA
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- New York, New York, USA
Niantic, Connecticut, USA - Ausbildung
- Princeton University (BA|1944)
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- Schriftsteller
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- Zinsser, Caroline (wife)
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- Yale University
The New School
Columbia University
Book-of-the-Month Club
New York Herald-Tribune
United States Army (WWII)
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing… von William Zinsser
The difficulty with all books such as this is the necessity to already know a bit about writing in order to understand what the author is getting at. If it happens that you know a fair bit about it already, the book is largely useless to you until you get to the bits you aren’t aware of yet. So, the value of the book varies depending on what you already know. For me, this book was about one third useful. Mostly I was using it to brush up on my script writing chops.
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Please follow the link to my review.
https://thecuriouspolymath.substack.com/p/book-review-mitchell-and-ruff-by
https://thecuriouspolymath.substack.com/p/book-review-mitchell-and-ruff-by
A solid look at writing nonfiction (and writing in general) that covers a lot of ground. Zinsser discusses things like word choice, sentence length, and grammar; he also gives tips on specific kinds of nonfiction writing (travel, memoir, business, science, etc.).
The author includes a lot of real-life writing samples to illustrate his points. Some of these are great, and others are boring (even when Zinsser thinks they're great).
The book is a little long for my taste, but there's a lot of good advice here and I'll definitely return to it in the future.
Note: There are a few curse words.… (mehr)
The author includes a lot of real-life writing samples to illustrate his points. Some of these are great, and others are boring (even when Zinsser thinks they're great).
The book is a little long for my taste, but there's a lot of good advice here and I'll definitely return to it in the future.
Note: There are a few curse words.… (mehr)
Useful in that it helped to understand how these successful memoir writers went about their story, their struggles and insights.
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