- As consciousness is harnessed to flesh, journals and notebooks, 1964-1980, Susan Sontag ; edited by David Rieff
- A great unrecorded history, a new life of E.M. Forster, Wendy Moffat
- Chaucer's Tale, 1386 and the Road to Canterbury, Paul Strohm
- The voice is all, the lonely victory of Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson
- I love a broad margin to my life, Maxine Hong Kingston
- Every love story is a ghost story, a life of David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max
- Norman Mailer, a double life, J. Michael Lennon