author interviews

Patricia Gussin is an author, physician, medical researcher and mother. Her novels include Shadow of Death , Twisted Justice , and The Test...

At the Independent , some what Arifa Akbar found out from one minute with Philip Kerr, author of the "Bernhard Gunther" novels and...

Victor Lodato is a playwright and poet. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and has won numerous awards for his plays, in...

Iain Banks' mainstream fiction includes The Wasp Factory (1984), Walking on Glass (1985), The Bridge (1986), Espedair Street (1987),...

Jessica Lee Jernigan queried Randa Jarrar about her critically acclaimed debut novel, A Map of Home . Part of the interview: One of the thi...

Last spring, thriller writer CJ Lyons talked with fellow author Libby Hellmann about her writing. Part of the Q & A: CJ: Tell us about y...

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels— The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz...

One of the six questions Ken Silverstein asked Peter Maass about his new book, Crude World ...and Maass' answer: The discovery of oil in...

Michelle Huneven is the author of the novels Round Rock and Jamesland . She has received a General Electric Foundation Award for Younger W...

Deborah Tannen's latest book is You Were Always Mom's Favorite!: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives . From her Q & ...