The Writer Who Stayed

176-page paperback / 5" x 8" / ISBN 978-1-58988-080-1 / Publication Date: November 2012 Adapted from "Zinsser on Friday," The American Scholar's National Magazine Award–Winning Essay Series William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for the American Scholar—about writing, the arts, New York, and popular culture. The Writer Who Stayed collects these engaging pieces by one of America's best essayists. Relationships, storytelling, baseball, summer reading, comic strips, Woody Allen—Bill Zinsser illuminates modern life. *** Reviews: "On Writing Well and Other Joys": The Wall Street Journal reviews The Writer Who Stayed by William Zinsser George Will's Washington Post column on The Writer Who Stayed, "William Zinsser and good writing as art" "Zinsser—who, with On Writing Well, taught a whole lot of us how to set down a clean English sentence—last year won a National Magazine Award for his Friday web columns in The American Scholar. They're now in a