ARTICLES ONLINE BY WILLIAM ZINSSER
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ZINSSER ON FRIDAY, a weekly essay for The American Scholar on writing, the arts, and popular culture.
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AN INTERESTING LIFE, a talk to the students and faculty of Deerfield Academy suggesting how to have an interesting life.
WRITING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, a talk to incoming foreign students at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
JOURNEYS WITH JOSEPH MITCHELL, a critical essay on the influential American writer that considers the mystery of why he stopped writing.
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MY STARDUST MEMORIES, a recollection of being an extra on Woody Allen's train of ugly people.
THE DAILY MIRACLE, a memoir of the early glory days of the New York Herald Tribune, a legendary family of journalistic mavericks and oddballs.
VISIONS AND REVISIONS, a reconstruction of how William Zinsser wrote his classic book On Writing Well and revised it in successive editions.
HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR, a short course on how to write your family hostory and your own memoir.
TRISTES TROPIQUE, the screenwriter Ernest Lehman, adrift in Tahiti after being fired from the set of "Sweet Smell of Success".
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, for the article “Two Men and a Portrait”
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YALE ALUMNI MAGAZINE, for the article “First Use Plain English”
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, for many articles by and about William Zinsser
publishers of WILLIAM ZINSSER'S Books
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PAUL DRY BOOKS, for American Places: A Writer’s Pilgrimage to 16 of America’s Most Visited and Cherished Sites, Mitchell & Ruff: An American Profile in Jazz, and The Writer Who Stayed
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DAVID R. GODINE PUBLISHER, for Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs
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HARPERCOLLINS, for On Writing Well, Writing to Learn, Writing Places and two audio CDs
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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS, for Spring Training
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DA CAPO PRESS, for Writing About Your Life
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FALES LIBRARY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, the library where William Zinsser's papers are collected. Its Web site provides an itemized catalogue of the collction, which includes books, articles, manuscripts, columns, movie reviews, special projects, correspondence, songs, etc.
