Autobiographies include Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Ashbridge, Black Hawk, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Richard Henry Dana, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, U. S. Grant, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, Lucy Larcom, Mark Twain, Mary Ann Webster Loughborough, Henry Adams, Henry James, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, Helen Keller, Mary Antin, Zora Neale Hurston, Pascal D'Angelo.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Paik Lee, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Wallace Stegner, Mary McCarthy, Thomas Merton, Alfred Kazin, James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, Malcolm X, Gay Talese, Harry Crews, Vivian Gornick, Frank Conroy, Joyce Carol Oates, Maxine Hong Kingston, Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., Erica Jong, James Alan McPherson, Richard Rodriguez, Paul Monette, Annie Dillard, Scott Russell Sanders, Kathleen Norris, John Elder, Julia Alvarez, Bell Hooks, Luis J. Rodríguez, Mary Karr, Terry Tempest Williams, Hilton Als, Alane Salierno Mason, Sherman Alexie, Elizabeth Wurtzel.
