On Writing Well - William Zinsser 2001
Sources
Most of the material that I have quoted in these pages was first written for a magazine or a newspaper and was subsequently reprinted in a book. In general the source cited below is for the original hardcover edition of the book. Many of those editions are now out of print but are available in public libraries. In many other cases the book has been reprinted in paperback and is quite easy to obtain.
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27-28 Preface by E. B. White to A Basic Chicken Guide, by Roy E. Jones. Copyright 1944 by Roy E. Jones. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow & Co. Also appears in The Second Tree From the Comer. Harper & Bros., 1954.
28-29 “The Hills of Zion,” by H. L. Mencken. From The Vintage Mencken, gathered by Alistair Cooke. Vintage Books (paperback), 1955.
30-31 How to Survive in Your Native Land, by James Herndon. Simon & Schuster, 1971. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, a division of Gulf & Western Corporation.
57-58 The Lunacy Boom, by William Zinsser. Harper & Row, 1970.
60-61 Slouching Toward Bethlehem, by Joan Didion. Farrar, Straus
& Giroux, 1968. Copyright 1966 by Joan Didion. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
62-63 The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947-1969, by Edmund Wilson. Renewal copyright 1983 by Helen Miranda Wilson. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
66 “Coolidge,” by H. L. Mencken. From The Vintage Mencken.
67 Pop Goes America, by William Zinsser. Harper & Row, 1966. 91-92 Spring Training, by William Zinsser. Harper & Row, 1989.
113-14 The Bottom of the Harbor, by Joseph Mitchell. Little, Brown and Company, 1960. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc. Copyright 1960 by Joseph Mitchell. Republished in a Modem Library edition (Random House), 1994.
119-20 Slouching Toward Bethlehem.
121-22 Coming Into the Country, by John McPhee. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977.
122-23 “Mississippi Water,” by Jonathan Raban. Copyright 1993 by Jonathan Raban. Reprinted with the permission of Aitken & Stone Ltd. The full text of the piece first appeared in Granta, issue #45, Autumn 1993.
124 “Halfway to Dick and Jane: A Puerto Rican Pilgrimage,” by Jack Agueros. From The Immigrant Experience, edited by Thomas Wheeler. Doubleday, 1971.
125 “The South of East Texas,” by Prudence Mackintosh. From Texas Monthly, October 1989.
125-26 The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe. Copyright 1979 by Tom Wolfe. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
127-28 The Offensive Traveler, by V. S. Pritchett. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
129 The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin. Copyright 1962, 1963 by James Baldwin. Copyright renewed. Published by Vintage Books. Reprinted with permission of the James Baldwin estate.
131 American Places, by William Zinsser. HarperCollins, 1992.
137-38 One Writers Beginnings, by Eudora Welty. Copyright 1983, 1984 by Eudora Welty. Reprinted by permission of the publishers, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
139-40 A Walker in the City, by Alfred Kazin. Harcourt, Brace, 1951.
140-42 “Back to Bachimba,” by Enrique Hank Lopez. From Horizon, Winter 1967. American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.
142-43 The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston. Copyright 1975, 1976 by Maxine Hong Kingston. Reprinted with permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
144-45 “For My Indian Daughter,” by Lewis P. Johnson. From Newsweek, Sept. 5,1983.
145-46 Clinging to the Wreckage, by John Mortimer. Penguin Books, 1984.
146-47 “Ornament and Silence,” by Kennedy Fraser. Originally in The New Yorker, Nov. 6, 1989. Copyright 1989 by Kennedy Fraser. Reprinted by permission. Subsequently included in Ornament and Silence: Essays on Womens Lives, by Kennedy Fraser. Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
151-53 “Brain Signals in Test Foretell Action,” by Harold M. Schmeck, Jr. From The New York Times, Feb. 13, 1971. Copyright 1971 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.
153-54 “The Mystery of Memory,” by Will Bradbury. From Life, Nov. 12, 1971. Copyright 1971 by Time Inc. Reprinted by permission.
154-55 Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection, by Berton Rоuесhe. Little, Brown and Company, 1954.
155-56 Beyond Habitat, by Moshe Safdie. The M.I.T Press, 1970.
157-58 “Bats,” by Diane Ackerman. From The New Yorker, Feb. 28, 1988.
158The Immense Journey, by Loren Eiseley. Random House, 1957.
159 Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, by Lewis Thomas. Copyright 1971 by Lewis Thomas. Originally appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.
160 “The Future of the Transistor,” by Robert W. Keyes. From Scientific American, June 1993.
162-65 “How Iraq Reverse-Engineered the Bomb,” by Glenn Zorpette. From I.E.E.E. Spectrum, April 1992. Copyright 1992 by l.E.E.E.
167 “Politics and the English Language,” by George Orwell.
183-84 “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” by John Updike. From Assorted Prose, by John Updike. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1965.
188-90 Confessions of a Fast Woman, by Lesley Hazleton. Copyright 1992 by Lesley Hazleton. Reprinted by permission of Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc.
190-91 “Breaking Away,” by Janice Kaplan. From Vogue, January 1984. 191-92 “Politics of Sports,” by Janice Kaplan. From Vogue, July 1984. 192-93 Life on the Run, by Bill Bradley. Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1976.
199-200 “Deep Streep,” by Molly Haskell. From Ms., December 1988. Copyright 1988 by Molly Haskell.
201-2 Living-Room War, by Michael J. Arlen. Viking Press, 1969.
203 The Musical Scene, by Virgil Thomson. Alfred A. Knopf, 1945.
204 Review by John Leonard. From The New York Times, Nov. 14, 1980. Copyright 1980 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.
205-6 “T. S. Eliot at 101,” by Cynthia Ozick. The New Yorker, Nov. 20, 1989. Copyright 1989 by Cynthia Ozick. Reprinted by permission of Cynthia Ozick and her agents, Raines & Raines, 71 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.
210-11 The Haircurl Papers, by William Zinsser. Harper & Row, 1964.
216-17 The America of George Ade, edited and with an introduction by Jean Shepherd. G. P. Putnams Sons, 1961.
218 Archy and Mehitabel, by Don Marquis. Doubleday & Co., 1927.
219 Benchley—or Else!, by Robert Benchley. Harper & Bros., 1947.
220-21 Strictly From Hunger, by S. J. Perelman. Random House, 1937. Also in The Most of S. J. Perelman. Simon & Schuster, 1958.
221 Getting Even, by Woody Allen. Random House, 1971.
222 “Trump Solo,” by Mark Singer. From The New Yorker, May 19, 1997. Reprinted by permission; copyright 1997 by Mark Singer. Originally in The New Yorker. All rights reserved.
223 “End of the Trail,” by Garrison Keillor. Originally in The New Yorker. Copyright 1984 by Garrison Keillor. Published in We Are Still Married, by Garrison Keillor. Viking Penguin, Inc., 1989. Reprinted by permission of Garrison Keillor.
223-24 “How the Savings and Loans Were Saved,” by Garrison Keil-
lor. Originally in The New Yorker. Copyright 1989 by Garrison Keillor. Published in We Are Still Married. Reprinted by permission of Garrison Keillor.
225 Dating Your Mom, by Ian Frazier. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.
226-27 “Glad Rags,” by John Updike. From The New Yorker, March 1993.
234-35 “Death of a Pig” from The Second Tree from the Comer by E. B. White. Harper & Bros. 1953.
266-83 “The News From Timbuktu,” by William Zinsser. From Conde Nast Traveler, October 1988.