Nobody Nowhere

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Nobody Nowhere is the award‑nominated debut autobiography by Australian author Donna Williams. Published in Britain in 1992 by Doubleday, it has 224 pages and spent 15 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list in early 1993. The book follows Williams’s life from early childhood (she remembers being three) and shows how people once thought she was deaf, psychotic, or disturbed. She only learns as an adult that her difficulties with the world came from autism. The manuscript ends when she leaves it with a UK child psychiatrist, Sebastian Kraemer, who sends it to autism expert Frances Tustin, helping it to be published.

Williams later wrote a sequel, Somebody Somewhere (1994), about how the book’s publication changed her life. She has published other autobiographical works, including Like Colour To The Blind (1998) and Everyday Heaven (2004). She also wrote a screenplay based on Nobody Nowhere, which was optioned for a film, and released a music album with the same title in 2000.