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.