William Zinsser is author of the best-selling On Writing Well and fifteen other books. He has been a writer, columnist, critic, and editor at leading newspapers and magazines as well as general editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club. During the 1970s he was master of Branford College at Yale University, where he taught nonfiction writing and where he first met Willie Ruff. On the faculty of the New School University in New York City, Mr. Zinsser is a part-time jazz pianist and a student of Dwike Mitchell.
