Inside the Charles George VA Medical Center, 10 military veterans sit in a circle, pen and paper in hand. They’re nervous, strangers to one another. “Write about your first day in-country,” says ...

With a new Reacher story out, authors Lee Child and Andrew Child discuss their writing process and getting lost behind the character.

Author Shannon Hale can’t help but remark on how different the University of Utah’s campus looks now, compared to when she was a student. Today, her eldest child is a student at the U. Back then, more ...

FORT SMITH -- Colson Whitehead's first novel was unpublished, rejected by more than two dozen people, and his agent dropped him. But -- though depressed -- he "got back to writing and made the [next] ...

There’s a common misconception about writing. “A lot of people think of it as a highbrow occupation,” says Cati Porter, executive director for Inlandia Institute, which serves the Inland Empire with a ...

Relationships with mothers can exist in a variety of different ways. We spoke with the authors of four YA novels about capturing complex mother-daughter relationships. See our list of 2023 books ...

The two books in today's episode point up how authors write and empathize with characters that aren't exactly likable. First we hear from Anthony Doerr who spoke to NPR correspondent Arun Rath about ...

The vast majority of authors don't use artificial intelligence as part of their creative process — or at least won't admit to it. Yet according to a recent poll from the writers' advocacy nonprofit ...

The authors talked about their writing through e-mail. Q: Heather, your books take the reader to another “other” world. What is the story behind “your story?” How did the idea for this world evolve? A ...

There is no denying that the Romance and Erotica genres are hot right now and the industry is mainly written by female indie authors. If you take a look at the iBooks top 100 authors you will notice ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with novelist Anne Tyler about her latest novel, "French Braid," and why she likes writing about families. On this day, when so many of us are spending time with ...