KAREN MACK GOLDSMITH
Karen has co-written four novels with Jennifer Kaufman. Her first novel, Literacy and Longing in
LA was on the LA Times Best Seller List for 15 weeks reaching #1, winning the Best Fiction
Award from the California Bookseller’s Association. Her other novels were also very well
reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and many other publications. Her 4 th novel will be
published by Harper Collins on June 30, 2026 and the television and film rights were sold after
an auction.
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Karen is a Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning producer of films and television.
For the last 25 years, she was the writer and Executive Producer of “A Home for the Holidays,”
an annual CBS Network Music Special which promotes foster care adoption, a show which she
created. Home for the Holidays won the Television Academy Honors, an award given out by
the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Originally from Nevada, Karen is a cum laude graduate of UCLA with a B.A. in Political
Science and a Juris Doctorate from the UCLA School of Law.