
This was compared to previous undercover journalism such as Black Like Me. Vincent's book Self-Made Man (2006) retells an eighteen-month experiment in the early 2000s in which she disguised herself as a man.

She also worked as an editor for Free Press. She attended Williams College, where she graduated with a BA in philosophy in 1990, before undertaking graduate studies at Boston College.

Norah Mary Vincent was born in Detroit, and grew up both there and in London, where her father was employed as a lawyer for the Ford Motor Company. She gained particular attention in 2006 for her book, Self-Made Man, detailing her experiences when she lived as a man for eighteen months. Her writing appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, New York Post, The Washington Post and other periodicals. She was a columnist for The Village Voice and. She was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay and lesbian news magazine The Advocate.

Norah Mary Vincent (Septem– July 6, 2022) was an American writer.
