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.
Amy Poeppel is the author of SMALL ADMISSIONS and LIMELIGHT. Her third novel, MUSICAL CHAIRS, will be out this July 2020 with Emily Bestler Books/Simon and Schuster.
Amanda Brainerd lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, blocks from where she grew up, and attended The Nightingale-Bamford School before going on to graduate from
Colleen Oakley is the critically acclaimed author of Before I Go, Close Enough to Touch, You Were There Too and the forthcoming The Invisible Husband of Frick
Mary Pauline Lowry is the author of the novel The Roxy Letter and is a regular contributor to O Magazine. Her work has appeared in The New
Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities. A National Endowment for
Julia Claiborne Johnson grew up on a farm in Tennessee, and as so often happens, went from there to working in magazines in New York City. After
Kerry Kletter holds a degree in literature and is the critically-acclaimed author of the young adult novel The First Time She Drowned. She has an extensive background in
Bianca Marais is the author of two novels, Hum If You Don’t Know the Words and If You Want to Make God Laugh. She holds a Certificate
Michael J. Spivey, Ph.D., is the author of Who You Are: The Science of Connectedness and The Continuity of Mind. After 12 years as a psychology professor