Books
Williams' first book was the autobiographical Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl. It was an international bestseller with fifteen weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. It was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize for Literacy in 1992.
Somebody Somewhere (1994) is the sequel to Nobody Nowhere that picks up the story of getting the first book published, and how that changed her life.
Later autobiographical works include Like Colour To The Blind (1998), and Everyday Heaven (2004). In 2010, Orlai Produkciós Iroda made a monodrama, Nemsenkilény, monológ nemmindegyembereknek ("Notanobodycreature"), from book of Henriett Seth F.. The text book contains details of Donna Williams' s Nobody Nowhere: The extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl few lines, Birger Sellin' s Don't want to Be Inside Me Anymore: Messages from Autistic Mind few lines and a few lines by Mark Haddon' s: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
She has also written several books on autism:
- Autism and Sensing: The Unlost Instinct
- Exposure Anxiety - The Invisible Cage: An Exploration of Self-Protection Responses in the Autism Spectrum
- Autism - an inside-out Approach: An Innovative Look at the Mechanics of Autism and Its Developmental Cousins
- The Jumbled Jigsaw: An Insider's Approach to the Treatment of Autistic Spectrum "Fruit Salads"
and a collection of her poetry and prose:
- Not Just Anything: A Collection of Thoughts on Paper published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
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