ARTICLES ONLINE BY WILLIAM ZINSSER
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The Atlantic Monthly
DOIN' THE CHAMELEON, an article about the pianist Dick Hyman.
THE DAILY MIRACLE, a memoir of the early glory days of the New York Herald Tribune, a legendary family of journalistic mavericks and oddballs.
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HOW TO WRITE A MEMOIR, a short course on how to write your family history and your own memoir.
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.
TRISTES TROPIQUE, the screenwriter Ernest Lehman, adrift in Tahiti after being fired from the set of "Sweet Smell of Success".
VISIONS AND REVISIONS, a reconstruction of how William Zinsser wrote his classic book On Writing Well and revised it in successive editions.
WRITING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, a talk to incoming foreign students at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
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TWO MEN AND A PORTRAIT, how the author's portrait was painted by the American portrait artist Thomas Buechner.
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FIRST USE PLAIN ENGLISH, the author of On Writing Well recalls how he taught Yale students to cut through the clutter.
The American Scholar Magazine
Smithsonian Magazine
Yale Alumni Magazine
ARTICLES ONLINE ABOUT WILLIAM ZINSSER
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The New York Times
WILLIAM ZINSSER, AUTHOR OF ‘ON WRITING WELL,’ DIES AT 92, an obituary by Douglas Martin in the New York Times.
A WRITING COACH BECOMES A LISTENER, an article by Dan Barry in the New York Times describes how William Zinsser continued to teach as a writing coach and a mentor in his final years.
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The Atlantic Monthly
REMEMBERING BILL ZINSSER, The author of the seminal manual On Writing Well died this month at the age of 92.
The New Yorker
TUESDAYS WITH ZINSSER, an obituary by Mark Singer in The New Yorker.
EULOGY FOR WILLIAM ZINSSER, a eulogy for William Zinsser delivered by Mark Singer on May 22, 2015 at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, New York City.
