Writing About Your Life - Couverture souple

Zinsser, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1569243794 ISBN 13 : 9781569243794

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2005

Synopsis

An ingeniously constructed teaching memoir from the author of the bestselling On Writing Well -- "You learn without knowing it." (Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes)

Written with elegance, warmth, and humor, this highly original "teaching memoir" by William Zinsser--renowned bestselling author of On Writing Well gives you the tools to organize and recover your past, and the confidence to believe in your life narrative. His method is to take you on a memoir of his own: 13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, amusing, and often surprising moments in his long and varied life as a writer, editor, teacher, and traveler. Along the way, Zinsser pauses to explain the technical decisions he made as he wrote about his life. They are the same decisions you'll have to make as you write about your own life: matters of selection, condensation, focus, attitude, voice, and tone.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Zinsser began his career with the New York Herald Tribune and wrote regularly for leading magazines. His seventeen books, in addition to On Writing Well, include Writing to Learn, American Places, Mitchell & Ruff: An American Profile in Jazz, and Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. He taught writing at Yale and at the New School. William Zinsser died in 2015.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1569243794
• ISBN 13: 9781569243794
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible