Her books have won national and international awards and deal with important issues such as nuclear war, racial injustice, steroid abuse, date violence and most recently militia involvement. Miklowitz was the author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. Naval Ordinance Test Station near Pasadena, California after moving there with her husband in 1951. She worked at Bantam Books in New York briefly and then worked at the U.S. Miklowitz graduated from the University of Michigan in 1948 with a degree in English. Miklowitz was born in New York and wrote her first story 'My Brother Goo Goo' in third grade.

Her books have won national and international awards and deal with important issues such as nuclear war, racial injustice, steroid abuse, date violence and militia involvement. Miklowitz (in New York City – Januin Pasadena, California) was an American author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books for young adults. It portray's Philip's reunion with his father, who had been in Passadena when the attack happened, and the chaotic evacuation of the area of the attack.Gloria D. In 1987 a sequel entitled After The Bomb: Week One was published. Barrter was more critical, however, describing the book as 'almost blithely optimistic'. A 1986 review of the book in Fantasy Review by Martha A. A 1995 review in the book Anatomy of wonder: a critical guide to science fiction described After the Bomb as being 'well researched and harrowing' and featuring 'attractive characterization'. A May 1985 review published in the Wausau Daily Herald by Alice Hornbacker described the subject-matter of the book as 'scary and morbid', but also as offering young readers afraid of nuclear war not only an opportunity to 'sort out their unspoken fears, but articulate and share them as well'. The book won the 1989 Iowa Books for Young Adults Poll.

The book was written with the objective of turning young people into anti-nuclear weapons activists. Her regular publisher refused the book due to its grim content, so it and its sequel were published instead by Scholastic, who also issued a teachers guide to accompany the book and facilitate classroom discussions. Miklowitz based the protagonist of the book, Philip, on her son, who was awkward as a teenager.

During the story Philip develops an attitude of 'Me and mine first', with him being portrayed as switching the tag of an evacuee with his mother's so that his mother would be evacuated to another state for treatment. The story follows a teen, Philip, who attempts to survive in the aftermath of a nuclear missile accidentally launched at Los Angeles by the Soviet Union, with his mother (the father is presumed dead as he worked in downtown Los Angeles, ground zero for the bomb), older brother, and friends. After the Bomb is a post-apocalyptic juvenile novel by Gloria D.

Sacajawea by Gloria D. Miklowitz