Carl Deuker (born August 26, 1950) is an award-winning author of young adult novels.

Carl Deuker now lives in Washington State which serves as the setting for most of his work. He currently works at Shelton View Elementary School in Bothell teaching 6th graders. Deuker was raised in Redwood City, California, a suburban city twenty-five miles south of San Francisco. When he was three years old, his father died of a stroke while working as a traveling salesman. His mother did not remarry, instead choosing to raise Deuker and his sister Beth herself. Deuker's mother did file a wrongful death claim against the hotel where her husband died. That incident later played a part in Deuker's novel, Heart of a Champion'