- Don't live for your obituary, advice, commentary and personal observations on writing, 2008-2017, John Scalzi
- Who is R.L. Stine?, by M.D. Payne ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- A chat about celebrities, or, The story of a book, by Curtis Guild
- Alabama spitfire, the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Bethany Hegedus ; illustrated by Erin McGuire
- My life in dog years, Gary Paulsen
- The boyhood of living authors, by William H. Rideing
- Authors and friends
- Talks about authors and their work, by Ella Reeve Ware
- Famous American authors, by Sarah K. Bolton
- Literary shrines, the haunts of some famous American authors, by Theodore F. Wolfe. --
- Henry David Thoreau, Douglas T. Miller
- Letters to living authors, by John A. Steuart
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider, the story of E.B. White, Barbara Herkert ; illustrated by Lauren Castillo
- The princess diarist, Carrie Fisher
- ¿Quién fue Harriet Beecher Stowe?, by Dana Meachen Rau ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- Bad boy, a memoir, Walter Dean Myers
- Solid seasons, the friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jeffrey S. Cramer
- The Homes and haunts of our elder poets
- The beet fields, memories of a sixteenth summer, Gary Paulsen
- The best of us, a memoir, Joyce Maynard
- Specimens of American poetry, with critical and biographical notices. In three volumes, By Samuel Kettell
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Leslie Strudwick
- The boyhood of famous authors, by William H. Rideing
- Memories of a hostess, a chronicle of eminent friendships, drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields, by M.A. DeWolfe Howe
- How Angel Peterson got his name, and other outrageous tales about extreme sports, Gary Paulsen
- American authors' ancestry, (including some others who have influenced life wisely- divines, diplomats, jurists, philanthropists, reformers, and benefactors), John Austin
- Kadir Nelson, by Lisa M. Bolt Simons
- A girl from Yamhill, a memoir, Beverly Cleary
- Imagine that!, how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat, by Judy Sierra ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
- On my way, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola
- Great American writers, by W.P. Trent and John Erskine. --
- The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown, Mac Barnett and Sarah Jacoby
- The lost prince, a search for Pat Conroy, Michael Mewshaw
- The life of Mark Twain, the early years, 1835-1871, Gary Scharnhorst
- Pen pictures of modern authors
- Autumn in Venice, Ernest Hemingway and his last muse, Andrea Di Robilant
- Evenings in the library, bits of gossip about books and those who write them, by George Stewart, Jr
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Wil Mara
- Planting stories, the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré, words by Anika Aldamuy Denise ; illustrations by Paola Escobar
- Topical notes on American authors, by Lucy Tappan
- American audacity, in defense of literary daring, William Giraldi
- Great spiritual writers of America, by George Hamlin Fitch ; illustrated
- The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little House books, by Marta McDowell
- Hole in my life, a memoir by Jack Gantos, Jack Gantos
- Maya Angelou, [Emma E. Haldy ; illustrated by Jeff Bane]
- Hole in my life, Jack Gantos
- Sketches from Concord and Appledore., Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier, By Frank Preston Stearns ..
- Becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination, Brian Jay Jones
- Literary friends and acquaintance, a personal retrospect of American authorship, by W. D. Howells
- Jacqueline Woodson, by Lisa M. Bolt Simons