- Elia Kazan, a life
- Boston boy, Nat Hentoff. --
- Bill Peet, an autobiography, Bill Peet
- Here if you need me, a true story, Kate Braestrup
- At the end of the road, Jack Kerouac in Mexico, Jorge GarcĂa-Robles ; translated by Daniel C. Schechter
- Gone to the woods, surviving a lost childhood, by Gary Paulsen ; pictures by Anna and Varvara Kendel
- The book of separation, a memoir, Tova Mirvis
- The lost landscape, a writer's coming of age, Joyce Carol Oates
- Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck
- Looking back, a book of memories, Lois Lowry
- Here if you need me, a true story, Kate Braestrup
- Lots of candles, plenty of cake, a memoir, Anna Quindlen
- Jack London, an American life, Earle Labor
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- Nobody's wife, Joan Kerouac
- Spillane, king of pulp fiction : a biography, Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor
- An American childhood, Annie Dillard. --
- The stations of solitude, Alice Koller
- Sympathy for the devil, four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal, Michael Mewshaw
- Black boy, a record of childhood and youth
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- Wandering through life, a memoir, Donna Leon
- In memory yet green, the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954. --
- Recovering, a journal, by May Sarton. --
- Off the road, my years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, Carolyn Cassady
- Shirley Jackson, a rather haunted life, Ruth Franklin
- In the body of the world, a memoir, Eve Ensler
- The mockingbird next door, life with Harper Lee, Marja Mills
- Hemingway, the Paris years, Michael Reynolds
- My Venice and other essays, Donna Leon
- Sylvia Plath, the woman and the work, edited, with an introd. by Edward Butscher. --
- My life as a villainess, essays, Laura Lippman
- The way forward is with a broken heart, Alice Walker
- How to grow up, a memoir, Michelle Tea
- Flannery., writers, directors, Elizabeth Coffman, Mark Bosco ; Elizabeth Coffman, Julie Sacks, Mark Bosco, Ted Hardin, producers, DVD/Widescreen
- You don't have to say you love me, a memoir, Sherman Alexie
- Letter to my daughter, Maya Angelou
- Cheever, a life, Blake Bailey
- Working, researching, interviewing, writing, Robert A. Caro
- The cooked seed, a memoir, Anchee Min
- American masters., producer, Rita Coburn Whack, Bob Hercules, Jay Alix, Una Jac ; director, Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack, Widescreen
- Jack Kerouac, king of the Beats, a portrait, Barry Miles
- Jack's book, an oral biography of Jack Kerouac, by Barry Gifford & Lawrence Lee
- Subterranean Kerouac, the hidden life of Jack Kerouac, Ellis Amburn
- Paul and Me, fifty-three years of adventures and misadventures with my pal Paul Newman, A.E. Hotchner
- The call of stories, teaching and the moral imagination, Robert Coles
- Edith Wharton, Hermione Lee
- A man without a country, Kurt Vonnegut ; edited by Daniel Simon
- This isn't going to end well, the true story of a man I thought I knew, by Daniel Wallace ; illustrations by William Nealy
- In the body of the world, Eve Ensler