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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.

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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.

Author Interview Library

  • 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

  • T.A. Barron

    Fantasy, Nonfiction

  • Joan Bauer

    Young Adult Fiction

  • Judy Blume

    Middle Grades Fiction

  • Susan Campbell Bartoletti

    Young Adult Nonfiction

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Linda Sue Park

    Middle Grades Historical Fiction

  • 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

  • Janet Wong

    Poetry, Upper Elementary & Middle Grades Fiction

  • Jacqueline Woodson

    Middle Grades & Young Adult Fiction, Poetry

  • Laurence Yep

    Historical Fiction, Short Stories

  • Jane Yolen

    Middle Grades Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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