Noted Writing instructor - William Zinsser - reached 91st Birthday

from Writer's Almanac (American Public Media, Garrison Keillor): October 7 is the birthday of journalist, nonfiction author, and writing teacher William Zinsser, born in New York City in 1922. He's written several books, including a couple of memoirs and books about travel, jazz, and baseball. His best-known work is On Writing Well (1976). In it he advocates a clean, spare style: "Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon."