The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman was originally published in 1980 under the title Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture. It captures the story of his public and private life from his birth through the time he lived as an outlaw. The current edition, published in 2000 by Four Walls Eight Windows, has new pictures that were not in the original publication.

In Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel (1992), Marty Jeter, who knew him from covering Yippie events for an underground newspaper, tells the story of Hoffman's life. Jeter's work is sympathetic and thorough with frequent references to Hoffman's own writings.

The Whole Earth Catalog, edited by Stewart Brand and Peter Warshall, did what Hoffman attempted to do, but in a nonviolent and anticonfrontational way: it offered the wisdom of the alternative lifestyle to readers who wished to participate. First published in 1968, it has...