Gae Polisner Explained

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.^[1]

Books

• 2013 The Pull of Gravity^[2]
• 2015 The Summer of Letting Go^{[3] [4]}
• 2017 The Memory of Things^{[5] [6] [7]}
• 2018 In Sight of Stars^[8]
• 2020 Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me^[9]
• 2020, Seven Clues to Home, with Nora Raleigh Baskin^[10]

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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^[11] 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.
• Her first manuscript, a 2008 piece of women's fiction titled The Jetty, was a Top Semifinalist in the first ever 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gae Polisner. Macmillan Publishers. October 8, 2018.
2. News: To Sell First Novel, Putting That Marketing Degree to Use. The New York Times. May 1, 2015. October 8, 2018.
3. News: Grief Lessons. The New York Times. May 9, 2014. October 8, 2018.
4. News: Books for Kids: Valuable life lessons in The Summer of Letting Go. Montreal Gazette. August 12, 2015. October 8, 2015.
5. News: A Wave of 9/11 Novels Seeks a New Audience: the Young Reader. Alter. Alexandra. The New York Times. December 21, 2017. October 8, 2018.
6. News: The Memory of Things' Is Mesmerizing Teenage Tale Set in Days after 9/11: Book Review. Chopin. Allison. New York Daily News. September 10, 2016. October 8, 2018.
7. News: To Remember 9/11, Read A Book. Saadia. Faruqi. Saadia Faruqi. Huffington Post. December 6, 2017. October 8, 2018.
8. News: Author events on Long Island, week of March 11. Newsday. March 10, 2018. October 8, 2018.
9. Book: JACK KEROUAC IS DEAD TO ME Kirkus Reviews. en.
10. Web site: Seven Clues to Home by Gae Polisner, Nora Raleigh Baskin: 9780593119617 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. PenguinRandomhouse.com. en-US. 2020-03-03.
11. Web site: Readers' Choice Nominations. American Library Association. November 15, 2011. October 8, 2015.