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About Wendy Gaynor
- Wendy Gaynor (born December 31, 1947) is an entrepreneur and author based in New York City. She began her career creating one-of-a-kind gift baskets out of her home in Sag Harbor, Long Island when she was a single mother of two daughters, Ruby and Violet.
- After her business took off she opened a wholesale bakery in New York City that specialized in cookies.
- In 1995 she had to close her business suddenly to care for her oldest daughter Ruby suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident.After her daughter's recovery she and her husband Michael Davidson opened Ruby et Violette, a gourmet cookie shop in June 2001.
- It became renown for its extensive variety of chocolate chip cookies.
- Five percent of her net profits from sales of cookies went to the Mount Sinai traumatic brain injury unit, where her daughter had been treated.
- She sold the bakery in 2006. Soon after she began writing a memoir about helping her oldest daughter recover from a traumatic brain injury.
- Retelling the devastating event uncovered many of her own travails as a child, wife, mother and entrepreneur. Mom, I Want To Speak to Marie Antoinette: A Story About Traumatic Brain Injury, Abuse, Death, Divorce, Love & Laughter was published in 2013.
- It was agented by Dystel and Goderich Literary Management.
- She became a contributing writer to The Huffington Post in October 2013.
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