William Zinsser had been a writer and editor for 30 years, covering subjects as varied as shad running in the Hudson River and the Mau-Mau revolt in Kenya, when he complained to his wife that his well ...

TORONTO, Aug. 12, 2025 /CNW/ - For the first time in its 176-year history, Zinsser — the industry's trusted authority in primer — is naming a Colour of the Year: White. Zinsser names its first-ever ...

William Zinsser has spent a lifetime teaching people how to become better writers. Now at 88, the author of “On Writing Well” is just as much a student of the craft as he is a teacher. In a recent ...

If you’ve ever wanted your writing to stop sounding like a conference call transcript and start sounding like a real human with a brain and a pulse, William Zinsser is your guy. His book, On Writing ...

Our revelatory encounters with teachers who will make a difference in our lives stay with us as vividly, I think, as our recollections of falling in love. In college, I had two such experiences. The ...

Not long ago I purchased yet another edition of “On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction,” written by William Knowlton Zinsser, that prolific author, editor, and teacher who turns 90 ...

William Zinsser, a writer whose 1976 book On Writing Well has become a Bible for people hoping to write concisely and with verve, died Tuesday at 92. A man who so generously gave us a some simple ...