FSG Acquires Memoir by Tim Berners-Lee

Farrar, Straus and Giroux has acquired U.S. rights to a new memoir by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Titled This Is for Everyone, it was acquired from Sarah Chalfant at the Wylie Agency for publication on the FSG list in September 2025.

This Is for Everyone was acquired as part of a Holtzbrinck Publishing Group global deal and will be published simultaneously by Pan Macmillan in the U.K. and by Rowohlt in Germany. Rights have been acquired separately by Mondadori in Italy, Deusto in Spain, and Toyo Keizai in Japan.

Per FSG, Berners-Lee's memoir "will tell the story of his iconic invention, exploring how it launched a new era of creativity and collaboration while unleashing a commercial race that today imperils democracies and polarizes public debate."

Alexander Star, Executive Editor at FSG, says:

“Most of us use the Internet every day but give little thought to where it came from, what it is, or how it can be better," said FSG executive editor Alexander Star in a statement. "In a time of disruptions and serial crises, who better than the brilliant and humane man who invented the World Wide Web to tell its story and show us how its promise can be fulfilled.”