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AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. AdLit.org is an educational initiative of WETA, the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation.
Video interviews with
Top Young Adult Authors
Watch AdLit.org's exclusive video interviews with top Young Adult (YA) authors and illustrators to meet the characters behind their characters and hear the stories behind their stories. Learn about their childhoods, the teachers who influenced them, why they became writers, and lots of great details about their writing processes and works.
Our video interviews are a great resource for your classroom author study units. For ideas on how to plan and lead an author study, see our Author Study Toolkit. For more ideas to engage reluctant or struggling readers, browse our themed booklists for kids in grades 4-12.
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Author Interview Library
- Sylvia Acevedo
Biography, Nonfiction
- Kwame Alexander
Poetry, Young Adult Fiction, Middle Grades Fiction
- Mary Amato
Poetry, Young Adult Fiction, Middle Grades Fiction
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Young Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction
- M.T. Anderson
Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure
- Tom Angleberger
Middle Grades Fiction
- Mark Aronson
Young Adult Nonfiction
- Avi
Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Short Stories
- Leigh Bardugo
Fantasy
- Mac Barnett
Middle Grades Fiction, Mystery
- T.A. Barron
Fantasy, Nonfiction
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Young Adult Nonfiction
- Joan Bauer
Young Adult Fiction
- Judy Blume
Middle Grades Fiction
- Tonya Bolden
Historial Fiction, Biography, Nonfiction
- Libba Bray
Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy
- Gennifer Choldenko
Middle Grades Fiction
- Sneed Collard
Nonfiction (Science, Environment, Animals), Adventure
- Christopher Paul Curtis
Young Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Chris d'Lacey
Fantasy, Upper Elementary & Middle Grades Fiction
- Kate DiCamillo
Early Chapters Books, Middle Grades Fiction
- L.M. Elliott
Historical Fiction
- Margarita Engle
Poetry, Free Verse
- Timothy Basil Ering
Illustrator of Middle Grades Fiction
- Sid Fleischman
Young Adult Biography, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Humor
- Candace Fleming
Young Adult Biography, Middle Grades Fiction
- Jack Gantos
Young Adult Fiction, Upper Elementary School Series Fiction
- John Green
Young Adult Fiction
- Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan
Middle Grades Nonfiction
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
Upper Elementary, Young Adult Fiction
- Shannon Hale
Fairy Tales, Fantasy
- Emma Walton Hamilton
Upper Elementary Fiction, Poetry
- Deborah Heiligman
Young Adult Biography
- Jennifer Holm
Graphic Novels
- Matt Holm
Graphic Novels
- Phillip Hoose
Nonfiction
- Deborah Hopkinson
Middle Grades Historical Fiction, Nonfiction
- Norton Juster
Upper Elementary & Middle Grades Fiction
- Jeff Kinney
Upper Elementary & Middle Grades Fiction
- Kathleen Krull
Upper Elementary & Middle Grades Biography, History
- E.B. Lewis
Illustrator
- Grace Lin
Upper Elementary Fiction
- E. Lockhart
Young Adult Fiction
- Lois Lowry
Middle Grades & Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction
- David Lubar
Middle Grades Fiction, Humor
- Leonard Marcus
History of Children's Books & Authors
- Patricia & Frederick McKissack
Upper Elementary & Middle Grades Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Sy Montgomery
Middle Grades Nonfiction (Animals, Conservation)
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Middle Grades Fiction
- Kadir Nelson
Author & Illustrator, Upper Elementary Fiction
- Naomi Shihab Nye
Poetry, Middle Grades Fiction
- Linda Sue Park
Middle Grades Historical Fiction
- Stephan Pastis
Middle Grades Fiction, Graphic Novels
- Katherine Paterson
Young Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics Re-told
- Rodman Philbrick
Middle Grades Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure
- Tamora Pierce
Fantasy
- Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
Fantasy
- Rick Riordan
Adventure, Mythology
- Pam Muñoz Ryan
Upper Elementary & Middle Grades Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Brian Selznick
Middle Grades Fiction, Illustrator
- Neal Shusterman
Middle Grades Fiction, Humor, Fantasy
- Anita Silvey
About Children's & Young Adult Literature
- Marilyn Singer
Poetry
- Charles Smith
Sports, Photography
- Sherri L. Smith
Historical Fiction
- Jerry Spinelli
Middle Grades Fiction
- R.L. Stine
Middle Grades Horror
- Tanya Lee Stone
Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction
- Greg Tang
Upper Elementary Nonfiction (Math)
- Rosemary Wells
Upper Elementary & Middle Grades Historical Fiction
- Rita Williams-Garcia
Young Adult & Middle Grade Fiction
- Janet Wong
Poetry, Upper Elementary & Middle Grades Fiction
- Jacqueline Woodson
Middle Grades & Young Adult Fiction, Poetry
- Gene Yang
Graphic Novels
- Laurence Yep
Historical Fiction, Short Stories
- Jane Yolen
Middle Grades Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction