Author interviews almost always focus on questions regarding an author’s latest publication (and that’s great because it’s how readers discover new books!) but sometimes it’s fun to ask authors to talk about their lives beyond the book they’ve just written. Authors Answer poses 20 standing questions and asks authors to pick FIVE that they want to write about.
I began Authors Answer in 2020 as a stand alone blog. In 2025 I moved the project into a Substack newsletter. All of the posts that appeared on the original blog are available below. [You can also scroll through the original posts by date.]
Are you an author? Visit the Questions page to pick five of the twenty questions you’d like to answer and have shared in the Authors Answer Substack Newsletter.
Taylor Hahn is a writer and lawyer based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and Fordham University School of Law. The Lifestyle is
Brooke Lea Foster is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and
Linda Stewart Henley is an English-born American. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband Vince. She learned to write fiction by attending Vince’s fiction writing
Susan Speranza is the author of ICE OUT: A Novel, a modern fable of forgiveness and redemption after a woman finds herself caught in a sinister, dream-like forest habituated by women who
Eldridge C. Hanes—Redge to his friends—was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Orange, Virginia, and then from Duke University in 1967 with
Robin Farrar Maass is a lifelong reader and writer who fell in love with England when she was twenty-two. She enjoys tending her messy wants-to-be-English garden, painting watercolors, and
Since 1969 Tom Miller (Washington, D.C, 1947) has lived in Arizona, where he initially wrote for the underground anti-war press, then for sea-level publications such as Smithsonian, Rolling Stone,
Maggie Anton is an award-winning author of historical fiction, as well as a Talmud scholar with expertise in Jewish women’s history. She was born Margaret Antonofsky in Los
Catherine Drake lives with her husband in Stowe, Vermont. The Treehouse on Dog River Road is her first novel.
Prior to Gary Lee Miller beginning his writing career, he was a successful businessman and entrepreneur. His writing is rooted in life experiences and people who have crossed his path in