Gail Langer Karwoski

Gail Langer Karwoski (born 1949) is an American author whose writings includes adult fiction, historical fiction and non-fiction.

She was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Farley Langer, a Polish immigrant, and her mother, Esther Weiner. The family lived above their store, Farley's Hardware, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, until Karwoski was in primary school. Afterwards, they moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, and Gail graduated from Brookline High School in 1966. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts in 1970.

In 1972, Karwoski received an M.A. in English Literature and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. who became a psychology professor at the University of Georgia. In 1974–80 and 1985–96, Karwoski taught in Georgia public schools in Clarke and Oconee Counties. In 1980–85, she was an editor/writer at the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government. In 1996, her first book was published.

Awards 2013: Moonbeam Gold Award 2013: Sydney Taylor Book Award 2013: Board Book Roundup selection in the New York Times 2010: Georgia Center for the Book list of 25 Books all young Georgians should read 2009: Georgia Picture Book Author of the Year by Georgia Writers Association 2007: Finalist, New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award 2007: Colonial Williamsburg & Williamsburg Library Beacon of Freedom Award 2007: Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2007: Learning Magazine Teachers Choice Award 2006: Finalist, Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2006: Finalist, Massachusetts Children's Book Award 2006: Finalist, Nevada Young Readers Award 2006: Finalist, Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award 2006: Finalist, Rhode Island Children's Book Award 2006: Finalist, Southern Book Prize 2005: Finalist, foreword Magazine, Book of the Year 2005: Featured title, National Book Festival Pavilion of States 2004: Maxwell Medal for Best Children's Book by Dog Writers Association of America 2001: Finalist, South Dakota Prairie Pasque Book Award 2001: Finalist, Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award 2001: Work-in-Progress Grant runner-up, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators 2001: Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year 2000: Finalist, Georgia Children's Book Award

Works Authored Skeleton in the Art Closet (Black Rose Writing, 2023) A Brush with Murder (Black Rose Writing, 2022) The Tale of the Children's Arthur The Wedding Heard Round the World; America's First Gay Marriage (The University of Minnesota Press, 2016) When Hurricane Katrina Hit Home (The History Press, 2013) Testing Ground (2013) Search and Rescue Dogs (Capstone Press, 2013) Terriers; Loyal Hunting Companions (Capstone Press, 2013) Thank You, Trees! (Kar-Ben, 2013) with Marilyn Gootman River Beds; Sleeping in the World's Rivers (S?Arbordale Publishing, 2008) Julie the Rockhound (Arbordale Publishing, 2007) Tsunami: The True Story of an April Fool's Day Disaster (Ohio: Darby Creek Publishers, 2006) Water Beds; Sleeping in the Ocean (Arbordale Publishing, 2005) Miracle: The True Story of the Wreck of the Sea Venture (Ohio: Darby Creek Publishers, 2004) Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906 (Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 2004) Surviving Jamestown: The Adventures of Young Sam Collier (Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 2001) Seaman, the Dog Who Explored the West with Lewis and Clark (Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1999) The Tree that Owns Itself; and Other Adventure Tales from Georgia's Past (Peachtree Publishers, 1996) with Loretta Hammer

Edited works An Introduction to Law in Georgia (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, 1985). Teaching Georgia Government (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, 1977–81) City Government in Georgia (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, 1980)