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.
Kim Powers is the author of the upcoming novel Rules for Being Dead (pub date August 4, 2020), the thriller Dig Two Graves, the novel Capote in
J.F. Riordan has worked in opera, in the classroom, and in philanthropy, but her first love is writing.
Ms. Riordan has been called “a latter-day Jane Austen”.
Cathryn J. Prince brings a journalist’s sensibility to her work through meticulous research and investigation. Prince’s passion lies in revealing and personalizing little known and forgotten episodes
Bob Eckstein is a New York Times bestseller (Footnotes From the World’s Greatest Bookstores), an award-winning writer and illustrator, New Yorker cartoonist and world’s leading snowman expert
Alexandra Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Smith College,
Nancy Johnson is the author of the debut novel, The Kindest Lie, forthcoming from William Morrow/HarperCollins in April 2021. The book centers on race, class, and family
Sunny Stalter-Pace is Hargis Associate Professor of American Literature in the English Department at Auburn University. Her first book, Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York
Jennifer Steil is an award-winning author and journalist. Her new novel, Exile Music (Viking) follows the lives of a family of Austrian Jewish musicians who seek refuge
Margo Orlando Littell is the author of the novels The Distance from Four Points and Each Vagabond by Name, which won the University of New Orleans Publishing
Armed with a PhD in history, a well-thumbed deck of library cards, and a large bump of curiosity, author, speaker, and historian, Pamela D. Toler translates history