Author Interviews, Profiles, and News

Browse archive by date:

[ { "months" : [ "01", "05", "06", "11" ], "year" : 1980 }, { "months" : [ "08" ], "year" : 1986 }, { "months" : [ "08" ], "year" : 1996 }, { "months" : [ "08", "09", "11", "12" ], "year" : 1997 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09" ], "year" : 1998 }, { "months" : [ "02", "12" ], "year" : 1999 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2000 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2001 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2002 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2003 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2004 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2005 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2006 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2007 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2008 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2009 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2010 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2011 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2012 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2013 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2014 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2015 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2016 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2017 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2018 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2019 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2020 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2021 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2022 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2023 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2024 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08" ], "year" : 2025 } ]

Calamity Jane in Space: PW Talks with Constance Fay

By Mary M. Jones | 09/08/2023 @ 07:00PM

Fay debuts with 'Calamity' (Bramble, Nov.), an enemies-to-lovers romance set aboard a scrappy scouting ship in space.
In Conversation: Aliki Brandenberg and Stephen Savage

| 09/07/2023 @ 04:00PM

Author-illustrator Aliki, 94 and still hard at work, sat down for a conversation with picture book creator Stephen Savage.
How 'Stamped from the Beginning' Became a Graphic History

By DW McKinney | 09/06/2023 @ 08:00AM

The latest iteration of Ibram X. Kendi's much-adapted, National Book Award–winning 'Stamped from the Beginning' is a graphic history adapted and illustrated by Joel Christian Gill. We spoke with them both about adaptations, book bans, and whether an anti-racist America might be possible.
Bohemian Rhapsody: PW Talks with Anne Eekhout

By Liz Scheier | 09/01/2023 @ 07:00PM

In 'Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein' (HarperVia, Oct.), Anne Eekhout considers the complicated background of a horror legend.
High Marks: PW Talks with Lauren Nossett

By Pam Lambert | 09/01/2023 @ 07:00PM

Nossett follows up 'The Resemblance' with 'The Professor' (Flatiron, Nov.), a campus thriller that sees sleuth Marlitt Kaplan investigating a student’s apparent suicide.
What’s God Got to Do with It?: PW Talks with Ralph H. Craig III

By Ann Byle | 09/01/2023 @ 07:00PM

In 'Dancing in My Dreams' (Eerdmans, Nov.), Craig, a lecturer of religion at Dartmouth, traces Tina Turner’s spiritual path, from her Baptist roots to her embrace of Buddhism.
A Wild Playground: PW talks with Eskor David Johnson

| 08/25/2023 @ 07:00PM

The protagonist of Eskor David Johnson’s debut novel, 'Pay as You Go' (McSweeney’s, Oct.), is a barber seeking a suitable place to live in an off-kilter version of New York City whose unruly denizens have other plans for the young man.
The Grande Dame of Harlem: PW Talks with Tanisha Ford

By Michelle Arnot | 08/25/2023 @ 07:00PM

In 'Our Secret Society' (Amistad, Oct.), historian Ford profiles civil rights fund-raiser and socialite Mollie Moon.
Reincarnation: PW Talks with Amy Kurzweil

By Cheryl Klein | 08/25/2023 @ 07:00PM

'New Yorker' cartoonist Kurzweil’s graphic memoir 'Artificial' (Catapult, Oct.) documents how her father, futurist Ray Kurzweil, programmed an AI chatbot to “resurrect” her grandfather.
In Conversation: Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long

| 08/24/2023 @ 04:00PM

We asked Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, co-authors of 'More Than a Dream,' to discuss their research into the momentous March on Washington in 1963, and the importance of recognizing echoes of the past in contemporary events.
Q & A with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

By Yasmin Belkhyr | 08/24/2023 @ 03:00PM

With her forthcoming publication, 'Mama's Sleeping Scarf,' award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delves into a new category: children's books.
Four Questions for Patricia C. Wrede

By Michael M. Jones | 08/24/2023 @ 03:00PM

In 'The Dark Lord's Daughter,' Patricia C. Wrede's first new release in 10 years, 14-year-old Kayla Jones discovers that the biological father she never knew was the dreaded, now deceased, Dark Lord of a magical realm—and she's expected to follow in his footsteps.
Immortal Truths: PW Talks with Saskia Hamilton

By Maya Popa | 08/18/2023 @ 07:00PM

In 'All Souls' (Graywolf, Oct.), Hamilton, who died in June, illuminates love, fear, memory, and art in poems and lyric fragments.
A Better World: PW Talks with Gabriel Bump

By Marian Perales | 08/18/2023 @ 07:00PM

In Bump’s 'The New Naturals' (Algonquin, Nov.), a pair of Black academics fleeing campus racism form an underground utopian commune in Western Massachusetts.
Waterworld: PW Talks with Helen Czerski

By Lenny Picker | 08/18/2023 @ 07:00PM

In 'The Blue Machine' (Norton, Oct.), oceanographer Czerski surveys the biology and physics of the global ocean.
Q & A with Breena Bard

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 08/17/2023 @ 05:00PM

In her timely middle-grade graphic novel 'Wildfire,' Breena Bard introduces an eighth-grader, Julianna, whose family is displaced to urban Portland when a fire destroys their rural Oregon home.
Marjane Satrapi Is Done with Comics, But Never Art or the Revolution

By Meg Lemke | 08/16/2023 @ 12:00PM

The Iranian-French author of 'Persepolis,' which celebrates its 20th anniversary with a new edition, discusses her shift from comics to film, the banning of books in America, and her pride in Iran's young revolutionaries.
Homemade Crafts for the Holidays: PW Talks with Arounna Khounnoraj

By Kristen Martin | 08/11/2023 @ 07:00PM

Toronto artist and maker Arounna Khounnoraj takes an accessible and resourceful approach in 'Winter Celebrations' (Quadrille, Sept.).
DIY for All: PW Talks with Mercury Stardust

By Kristen Martin | 08/11/2023 @ 07:00PM

In 'Safe and Sound' (DK, Aug.), Mercury Stardust, aka the Trans Handy Ma'am, encourages and empowers renters to tackle home maintenance.
Color Commentary: PW Talks with Adrian Tomine

By Nicole Audrey Spector | 08/11/2023 @ 07:00PM

In 2007, Drawn & Quarterly published Adrian Tomine's graphic novel 'Shortcomings.' Fast-forward 16 years and its live-action film adaptation, directed by actor Randall Park with a screenplay by Tomine, is now in theaters—much to its author's delight.

Previous | Page | Next

641 - 660 of 5367