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.