This book, full of charm and ingenuity, cannot fail to delight
and instruct the would-be writer of personal narrative. -- Vivian
Gornick, author of The Situation and the Story
This is a book of pure pleasure.... The reader goes right
inside the writing process. -- Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing
Down the Bones
William Zinsser weaves his teaching narrative and his life in
a wonderful way. You learn without knowing it. -- Frank McCourt,
author of Angela''s Ashes and ''Tis
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內容簡介：
This highly original book by William Zinsser, author of the
classic guide On Writing Well, tells you how to write about the
people and places and events in your life that have been important
to you—whether you’re writing a memoir, a family history or just a
recollection of experiences you’d like to preserve or more fully
understand. Zinsser’s method is to take you on a memoir of his own:
13 chapters in which he recalls dramatic, amusing and often
inspiring moments in his long and unusually varied life as a
writer, editor, teacher and traveler.
Along the way in these memoirs William Zinsser pauses to explain
the technical decisions he made as he wrote them. 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. Written with elegance, warmth and humor, Writing About Your
Life gives you the tools to organize and recover your past and the
confidence to believe in your life narrative. It also gives you
permission—through the example of a life enriched by change and
risk—to make bold life choices of your own.
關於作者：
WILLIAM ZINSSER is a writer, editor, teacher and musician. He
began his career with the New York Herald Tribune and has since
written regularly for leading magazines. His 17 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. During
the 1970s he taught writing at Yale, where he was master of
Branford College. His musical revue about a summer community,
What’s the Point?, was produced off Broadway in 2003. He has long
taught writing at the New School, in New York, where he lives with
his wife, Caroline Zinsser.
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