Bibliograph

Writing about your life, a journey into the past, William Zinsser

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Writing about your life, a journey into the past, William Zinsser

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Writing about your life

Oclc number

54677751

Responsibility statement

William Zinsser

Review

"This 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. His 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."

Sub title

a journey into the past

Table Of Contents

Messages on my machine -- Writing about school -- The larger world -- A sense of enjoyment -- Writing about places -- People along the way -- The uses of memory -- An academic life -- Books of the month -- How to write a memoir -- Writing as a ministry -- Recovering the past -- Change is a tonic

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