About William Zinsser
Books by William Zinsser from Paul Dry Books
- American Places: A Writer's Pilgrimage to Sixteen of this Country's Most Visited and Cherished Sites
- Mitchell & Ruff: An American Profile in Jazz
William Zinsser is a writer, editor, and teacher. Visit him at his website.
He began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he worked as a feature writer, drama editor, film critic, and editorial writer, and has been a longtime contributor to leading magazines.
Throughout the 1970s, Zinsser taught writing at Yale University where he was master of Branford College. He served as executive editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club from 1979 to 1987.
His 17 books include On Writing Well, which is in the seventh edition; Writing to Learn; Spring Training; Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs; and most recently, Writing About Your Life. Zinsser now teaches at the New School, in New York, his hometown, and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Links for William Zinsser
- Read an excerpt from American Places
- Read an excerpt from Mitchell & Ruff
- Listen to a 2006 interview with Zinsser on NPR
- Read Zinsser's essay Visions and Revisions in the American Scholar
- View the curriculum guide for Mitchell & Ruff
- Read an interview with Zinsser on Jerry Jazz Musician
- Read Zinsser's essay First, Use Plain English in the Yale Alumni Magazine.