The classic works on the art of nonfiction writing are now in a complete
package for your listening pleasure.
This expanded CD collection presents William Zinsser's On Writing
Well, the classic teaching book that has sold more than 1 million
copies, together with a new 90-minute section that tells you how to
write a memoir.
Based on a course that Zinsser taught at Yale, On Writing Well has
long been praised by writers, teachers and students for its sound
advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It's for everybody who
wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get
through the day. Whether you want to write about people and places,
science and technology, business, sports or the arts, this is the
definitive guide to the craft of nonfiction.
Part II of this collection--on memoir, personal history and family
history--tells you in helpful detail how to write the story of your
life: who you are, who you once were, and what heritage you come from.
Throughout, Zinsser refers to the work of many successful memoir
writers, including Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, Russell Baker and
Eudora Welty, to demonstrate how they solved the problems of selection,
compression, focus and tone that every memoir writer struggles with.
