{"name": "Gayle Wilson", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Gayle Wilson is a two-time RITA\u00ae Award winner, taking home the RITA\u00ae Award for Best Romantic Suspense Novel in 2000 and for Best Romantic Novella in 2004. In addition to twice winning the prestigious RITA\u00ae Award, Gayle\u2019s books have garnered more than 50 other awards and nominations, including most recently the Daphne du Maurier Award for the Best Single Title Romantic Suspense of 2008, awarded to Victim, her latest novel from MIRA.\r\n\r\nGayle holds a master\u2019s degree in secondary education, with additional certification in the education of the gifted. Although her specialty was teaching honors and gifted students, as a former high school history and English teacher, she taught everything from remedial reading to Shakespeare\u2014and loved every minute she spent in the classroom.\r\n\r\nGayle was on the board of directors of Romance Writers of America for four years. In 2006 she served as the president of RWA, the largest genre-writers\u2019 organization in the world.\r\n\r\nGayle has written 41 novels and four novellas for Harlequin Enterprises, including works for Harlequin Historicals, Harlequin Intrigue, Special Releases, HQN Books, MIRA, and Mills & Boon"}, "personal_name": "Gayle Wilson", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [14305334], "remote_ids": {"goodreads": "35106", "wikidata": "Q118139740", "viaf": "31604619", "isni": "0000000074079808", "lc_naf": "no97061555"}, "links": [{"url": "http://www.booksbygaylewilson.com/", "title": "Author Website", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "alternate_names": ["Mona Gay Thomas\u200f"], "key": "/authors/OL1386207A", "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-01T04:27:56.134008"}}