Full name: Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past

Author: William Zinsser Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781569243794 1569243794

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. Similar books: Before We Get Started by Bret Lott Writing Life Stories by Bill Roorbach Madeleine L'Engle Herself by Madeleine L'Engle Old Friend from Far Away by Natalie Goldberg Inventing the Truth by William Zinsser Writing the Memoir by Judith Barrington The Clockwork Muse by Eviatar Zerubavel 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing by Gary Provost Simple & Direct by Jacques Barzun The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick The Writing Life by Annie Dillard Still Writing by Dani Shapiro For Writers Only by Sophy Burnham Room to Write by Bonni Goldberg Shimmering Images by Lisa Dale Norton Thunder and Lightning by Natalie Goldberg Good Prose by Tracy Kidder Handling the Truth by Beth Kephart Tell It Slant by Brenda Miller Writing to Learn by William Zinsser