W.W. Norton General Books by Subject
Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

• Dean Acheson - Present at the Creation
• Faith Adiele - Meeting Faith: An Inward Odyssey
• Richard Aldous - The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli
• Heidi Ardizzone - An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
• Jean H. Baker - Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
• Jean H. Baker - The Stevensons
• Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele - Empire: The Life Legend and Madness of Howard Hughes
• Dan Barry - Pull Me Up: A Memoir
• Rick Bass - The Deer Pasture
• Charles Baxter - A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations
• John Bayley - Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire
• John Bayley - Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement
• Mary Benson - Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement
• Ted Bishop - Riding with Rilke
• Eavan Boland - Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
• Patricia Bosworth - Diane Arbus: A Biography
• John Bowlby - Charles Darwin: A New Life
• Benjamin Bradlee - Conversations with Kennedy
• Sally Brampton - Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
• Gyles Brandreth - Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage
• Karen Brennan - Being with Rachel: A Personal Story of Memory and Survival
• Paul Brickhill - The Great Escape
• Randall Brink - Lost Star: The Search for Amelia Earhart
• Fawn M. Brodie - The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton
• Fawn M. Brodie - Thomas Jefferson
• Victor Brombert - Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth
• Colette Brooks - In the City: Random Acts of Awareness
• James Buchan - The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas
• Tom Buk-Swienty - The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America
• Helen Caldicott, M.D. - A Desperate Passion: An Autobiography
• Zoe Caldwell - I Will Be Cleopatra: An Actress's Journey
• Peter J. Conradi - Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch
• David D. Cooper - Thomas Merton and James Laughton
• Rachel Corrie - Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
• Francine Cournos, M.D. - City of One
• Ed Cray - Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
• Tom Crouch - The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright
• John C. Culver - American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace
• Charles Darwin - The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
• Hunter Davies - The Beatles
• Peter Davison - The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston from Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath, 1955–1960
• Alexis De Veaux - Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
• Todd DePastino - Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
• Toi Derricotte - The Black Notebooks
• Adrian Desmond and James Moore - Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
• Rachel DeWoskin, - Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
• John Patrick Diggins - Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History
• Michael Dirda - An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland
• Frederick Downs - The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
• Isadora Duncan - My Life
• Hunter Drohojowska-philp - Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe
• Joseph J. Ellis - Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
• Richard Ellman - Yeats
• Erik H. Erikson - Young Man Luther
• Blake Eskin - A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski
• Erich Eyck - Bismarck and the German Empire
• Byron Farwell - Stonewall: A Biography of General Thomas J. Jackson
• William Faulkner - Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918–1925
• Elaine Feinstein - Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet
• Richard P. Feynman - "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
• Richard P. Feynman - "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
• Jerzy Ficowski - Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait
• Ross Firestone - Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life and Times of Benny Goodman
• Noel Riley Fitch - Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
• Shelby Foote - The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
• Ford Madox Ford - Return to Yesterday
• Nicholas Fraser - Evita
• Sigmund Freud - An Autobiographical Study
• Nick Flynn - Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
• Jonathan Garfinkel - Ambivalence: Adventures in Israel and Palestine
• Peter Gay - Freud: A Life for Our Time
• Peter Gay - Freud
• Curt Gentry - J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
• David Greenberg - Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image
• Stephen Greenblatt - Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
• Sara Hall - Drawn to the Rhythm: A Passionate Life Reclaimed
• Patricia Hampl - I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
• Patricia Hampl - A Romantic Education
• Richard L. Harris - Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara’s Last Mission
• Ronald Hayman - A Life of Jung
• Bill Henderson - Her Father
• Bill Henderson - His Son
• Bill Henderson - Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction
• Christopher Hibbert - Napoleon's Women
• Chanrithy Him - When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
• Susan Tyler Hitchcock - Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
• Linda Hogan - Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
• Michael Holroyd - Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition
• Michael Holroyd - Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
• Michael Holroyd - Basil Street Blues: A Memoir
• Michael Holroyd - Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited
• Ann Hood - Comfort: A Journey Through Grief
• Richard Hugo - The Real West Marginal Way
• Joseph Hurka - Fields of Light: A Son Remembers His Heroic Father
• Ian Gibson - The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali
• Sandra M. Gilbert - Wrongful Death: A Medical Tragedy
• Lyndall Gordon - Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
• Lyndall Gordon - T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
• Lyndall Gordon - Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life
• Doris Grumbach - Extra Innings: A Memoir
• Sara Hall - Drawn to the Rhythm: A Passionate Life Reclaimed
• Ronald Hayman - A Life of Jung
• Bill Henderson - Her Father
• Hannah Hinchman - Little Things in a big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front
• Charles Higham - Kate: The Life of Katharine Hepburn
• Lynn Hill - Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
• Hannah Hinchman - Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front
• Hannah Hinchman - A Trail Through Leaves
• Linda Hogan - The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
• Richard Hough - Captain James Cook
• Cecil Houghton and Chester V. Clifton - The Memories: JFK 1961–1963
• Pam Houston - A Little More About Me
• Lee Jaffe - One Love: Life with Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Francis Jennings - Benjamin Franklin, Politician
• Kenneth R. Johnston - The Hidden Wordsworth
• Geneviève Jurgensen - The Disappearance: A Primer of Loss
• Jamie Kalven - Working with Available Light
• Kang Zhengguo - Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China
• Frederick R. Karl - George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography
• Helen Keller - The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic
• Steven G. Kellman,Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth
• Paul Murray Kendall - Richard the Third
• George F. Kennan - An American Family: The Kennans
• George F. Kennan - Around the Cragged Hill
• George F. Kennan - At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982–1995
• George F. Kennan - Sketches from a Life
• Richard S. Kennedy - Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummings
• Beth Kephart - Still Love in Strange Places
• Ian Kershaw - Hitler: 1889–1936: Hubris
• Ian Kershaw - Hitler: 1936–1945: Nemesis
• Bernice Kert - The Hemingway Women
• Frances Kiernan - The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
• Frances Kiernan - Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy
• Judith Kitchen - In Brief
• Maxine Kumin - Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery
• Stephen Kuusisto - Eavesdropping
• Anne LaBastille - Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lake
• Anna Larina - This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow
• Barbara Leaming - Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman
• Ralph Leighton - Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey
• Lyle Leverich - Tom
• Michael Lewis - Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
• Lewis Lockwood - Beethoven: The Music and the Life
• Polly Longsworth - The World of Emily Dickinson
• Simon Louvish - Man on the Flying Trapeze: W.C. Fields
• Mary S. Lovell - Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder
• Mary Lovell - A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
• Mary S. Lovell - The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
• Thomas Lynch - Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans
• Maynard Mack - Alexander Pope
• Brenda Maddox - D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage
• Jean Said Makdisi - Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women
• Winnie Mandela - Part of My Soul Went with Him
• Paul Mariani - The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane
• Paul Mariani - Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell
• David Mas Masumoto - Harvest Son
• David Mas Masumoto - Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring
• Ferenc Máté - A Vineyard in Tuscany: Shooting for the Moon
• Ferenc Máté - The Hills of Tuscany
• John Matteson - Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
• Sebastian Matthews - In My Father's Footsteps: A Memoir
• Henry Mayer - All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
• Malcolm McConnell - Into the Mouth of the Cat: The Story of Lance Sijan, Hero of Vietnam
• Robert McCrum - Wodehouse: A Life
• Robert McCrum - My Year Off
• Forrest McDonald - Alexander Hamilton
• Deborah E. McDowell - Leaving Pipe Shop
• William S. McFeely - Frederick Douglass
• William S. McFeely - Grant: A Biography
• William S. McFeely - Portrait: A Life of Thomas Eakins
• Patrick McGilligan - Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson
• William McKeen - Highway 61: A Father-and-Son Journey through the Middle of America
• William McKeen - Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson
• Jeffrey Meyers - Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation
• Honor Moore - The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir
• Margaret Moorman - My Sister's Keeper: Learning to Cope with a Sibling's Mental Illness
• Margaret Moorman - Waiting to Forget: A Motherhood Lost and Found
• Edmund S. Morgan - The Genius of George Washington
• Edmund S. Morgan - Roger Williams: The Church and the State
• Robin Morgan - Saturday's Child: A Memoir
• Jan Morris - The World: Travels 1950-2000
• George H. Nash - The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of Emergencies, 1917–1918
• Bobby Jack Nelson - Keepers
• John Nichols - If Mountains Die: A New Mexico Memoir
• Patrick O'Brian - Picasso
• Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. - All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education
• Judith Ortiz - The Latin Deli: Telling the Lives of Barrio Women
• Peter F. Ostwald - Glenn Gould
• Nell Irvin Painter - Sojourner Truth
• Jay Parini - The Norton Book of American Autobiography
• John P. Parker - His Promised Land
• Tom Philpott - Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War
• Stanley Plumly - Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
• Luis Poirot - Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence
• Marco Polo - The Travels of Marco Polo
• Paul Preston - Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy
• David Quammen - The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
• Robert E. Quirk - Fidel Castro
• Robert V. Remini - Daniel Webster
• Robert V. Remini - Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union
• Kym Ragusa - The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging
• Michael Reynolds - The Young Hemingway
• Michael Reynolds - Hemingway: The 1930s
• Michael Reynolds - Hemingway: The Paris Years
• Michael Reynolds - Hemingway: The Homecoming
• Michael Reynolds - Hemingway: The Final Years
• Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé - Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Correspondence
• Graham Robb - Balzac: A Biography
• Graham Robb - Rimbaud: A Biography
• Graham Robb - Victor Hugo: A Biography
• Carl Rollyson - Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon
• Phyllis Rose - The Norton Book of Women's Lives
• Leonie Rosenstiel - Nadia Boulanger
• Stanley Sadie - Mozart: The Early Years, 1756–1781
• Rudiger Safranski - Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
• May Sarton - After the Stroke
• May Sarton - At Eighty-Two
• May Sarton - At Seventy
• May Sarton - Dear Juliette
• May Sarton - Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year
• May Sarton - Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
• May Sarton - The House by the Sea: A Journal
• May Sarton - I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
• May Sarton - Journal of a Solitude
• May Sarton - May Sarton: Collected Letters
• May Sarton - May Sarton: Selected Letters, 1955–1995
• May Sarton - Recovering
• May Sarton - A World of Light
• Anne Sayre - Rosalind Franklin and DNA
• Emilie Schindler - Where Light and Shadow Meet
• Flip Schulke - He Had a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
• Flip Schulke - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Sandra Scofield - Occasions of Sin: A Memoir
• Anne Sebba - American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
• Gitta Sereny - The Healing Wound: Experiences and Reflections, Germany, 1938-2001
• Mary Lee Settle - Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
• Sue William Silverman - Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction
• Kathryn Kish Sklar - Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity
• Larry Smith - Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words
• Lillian Smith - Killers of the Dream
• Dorothy Allred Solomon - Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy
• Ted Solotaroff - Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir
• Robert Spaethling - Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters
• Bob Spitz - Dylan
• Gerald Stern - What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life
• Sidney Stewart - Give Us This Day
• Igor Stravinsky - An Autobiography
• John Stubbs - John Donne: The Reformed Soul: A Biography
• Jan Swafford - Charles Ives
• Craig L. Symonds - Joseph E. Johnston
• William Taubman - Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
• Dorothea Tanning - Between Lives: An Artist and Her World
• Emory M. Thomas - Robert E. Lee: An Album
• Emory M. Thomas - Robert E. Lee: A Biography
• Bruce W. Talamon - Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer
• Bruce W. Talamon - Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer (CD-sized edition)
• William Taubman - Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
• Nikolai Tolstoy - Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist, 1914–1949
• Hans L. Trefousse - Andrew Johnson
• Errol Trzewbinski - The Lives of Beryl Markham
• Robert C. Tucker - Stalin in Power
• Brian Urquhart - Ralph Bunche
• Brian Urquhart - Hammarskjold
• Erica Wagner - Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters
• Michael Wallis - Billy The Kid: The Endless Ride
• Susan Ware - Letter to the World: Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century
• Susan Ware - Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism
• Frances Welch - A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson
• Stanley Wells - Shakespeare: A Life in Drama
• John Archibald Wheeler - Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
• Francis Wheen - Karl Marx: A Life
• Evelyn C . White - Alice Walker: A Life
• Kayla Williams With Michael E. Staub - Love My Rifle More than You: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy
• A. N. Wilson - C. S. Lewis: A Biography
• A. N. Wilson - Paul
• A. N. Wilson - Tolstoy: A Biography
• Jon Wilson - Signs of Hope
• Allen Wheelis - The Listener
• Christoph Wolff - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician