{{short description|American author}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=October 2018}} {{Like resume|date=April 2026}} }} {{Infobox writer | name = | citizenship = American | occupation = {{Cslist|Attorney|novelist}} | known_for = Young adult and crossover novels | notable_works = | children = 2 | awards = | genre = Young adult literature }}

'''Gae Polisner''' is an American author of young adult and crossover to adult novels. She is also a practicing family law attorney/mediator. She lives in Long Island with her husband and two sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/gaepolisner/|title=Gae Polisner|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|accessdate=October 8, 2018}}</ref>

== Books ==

* ''2013 The Pull of Gravity''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/nyregion/gae-polisners-the-pull-of-gravity-to-be-published-next-week.html|title=To Sell First Novel, Putting That Marketing Degree to Use|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 1, 2015|accessdate=October 8, 2018}}</ref> * 2015 ''The Summer of Letting Go''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/books/review/love-letters-to-the-dead-and-the-summer-of-letting-go.html|title=Grief Lessons|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 9, 2014|accessdate=October 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/books/books-for-kids-valuable-life-lessons-in-the-summer-of-letting-go|title=Books for Kids: Valuable life lessons in The Summer of Letting Go|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=August 12, 2015|accessdate=October 8, 2015}}</ref> * 2017 ''The Memory of Things''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/books/9-11-novels-for-young-readers.html|last=Alter|first=Alexandra|title=A Wave of 9/11 Novels Seeks a New Audience: the Young Reader|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 21, 2017|accessdate=October 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/theater-arts/memory-gripping-teen-tale-days-9-11-article-1.2786929|last=Chopin|first=Allison|title=The Memory of Things' Is Mesmerizing Teenage Tale Set in Days after 9/11: Book Review|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=September 10, 2016|accessdate=October 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/saadia-faruqi/to-remember-911-read-a-book_b_11914260.html|title=To Remember 9/11, Read A Book|first=Saadia|last=Faruqi|author-link=Saadia Faruqi|work=Huffington Post|date=December 6, 2017|accessdate=October 8, 2018}}</ref> * 2018 ''In Sight of Stars''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/author-events-long-island-bookstores-g82858|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414172031/https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/author-events-long-island-bookstores-1.17044860|url-status=live|archive-date=April 14, 2021|title=Author events on Long Island, week of March 11|work=Newsday|date=March 10, 2018|access-date=October 8, 2018}}</ref> *2020 ''Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gae-polisner/jack-kerouac-is-dead-to-me/|title=JACK KEROUAC IS DEAD TO ME {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}</ref> *2020, ''Seven Clues to Home'', with Nora Raleigh Baskin<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608763/seven-clues-to-home-by-gae-polisner-and-nora-raleigh-baskin/|title=Seven Clues to Home by Gae Polisner, Nora Raleigh Baskin: 9780593119617 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==

* ''In Sight of Stars'' 2018, received a Booklist Starred Review, and is the winner of a 2018 AudioFile Earphones Award; Michael Crouch narrating.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} * ''The Memory of Things'' won the 2019 Golden Archer Award, Senior Division, Wisconsin's Children's Choice book award, and was a 2017 Wisconsin State Reading List final selection, a finalist for the New York Library Association's Three Apples Book Award, and a finalist for the Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Book Award. It was the recipient of a 2016 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best Young Adult fiction, and was named one of the Most Anticipated YA's of Fall/Winter 2016 by Barnes & Noble Teen Blog, one of the Best New Books for Teens by the Children's Book Review, one of the 15 Must-Read YA Books of Fall by Brightly.com, and one of the Buzzworthy Books of Summer by YABooks Central.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} * ''The Summer of Letting Go'' was the winner of the 2014 Nerdy Book Club Award Best Young Adult Fiction 2014, and received the Teen Ink Editor’s Badge of Approval.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} * ''The Pull of Gravity'' was the winner of the 2011 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best YA Fiction; a nominee for the 2011 Yalsa Readers Choice award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklists/readerschoice/rcnominations|title=Readers' Choice Nominations|publisher=American Library Association|date=November 15, 2011|accessdate=October 8, 2015}}</ref> and the 2011 CYBIL’s Award; included in the 2012 Bank Street College Best Children’s Fiction and 2011 Pennsylvania School Library Association’s List of Best YA Fiction lists; and a 2013-14 National Battle of the Books Pick.

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== External links == * {{official|http://gaepolisner.com}}

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