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For you, some ORM non-fiction I noticed while sorting through my acquisitions. This is only a tiny fragment of what's available for non-fic, though, and a lot of fiction authors wrote in multiple fields and/or have memoirs and essay collections.
- Biographies: Diana Souhami, Marion Meade, Catherine O'Sullivan Shore, Ruth Gruber, Fred Kaplan
- Cookbooks: James Beard, Marlene Dietrich, Gioietta Vitale
- Essays/Autobiographies: Alice Walker, Rebecca West, Iris Murdoch, John Gardner, May Sarton, Geoffrey Householder, Candy Darling
- History: Rebecca West, Walter Lord, Ernie Bradshaw, Emily Hahn
- Investigative, Journalism, True Crime: Ruth Gruber, Gordon Thomas, Joseph DiMona
- Mythology, Folklore & Legend: Bernard Evslin, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Sorche N Leodhas
- Industry Retrospectives/Advice: Richard Curtis (writing and literary agency), Richard Kirshenbaum (advertising), Helen Gurley Brown (relationship advice), Herbert Warren Wind (sports)
- Literary/Arts Criticism: Mary McCarthy, George Steiner
- Travel Writing: Laurence Durrell, Tristan Jones, Emily Hahn
Mix of Fiction & Non- for particular subject interest
- LGBT: Paul Monette, Jane Rule, William J. Mann, Helen Eisenbach, Diana Souhami
- Feminist & other activist: Alix Shulman, Robin Morgan, Jessica Amanda Salmonson
- Indigenous & African-American & Jewish & other cultural: Ray Young Bear, Alice Walker, Virginia Hamilton, Peter Singer, Clancy Sigal, Howard Engel, Johanna Kaplan