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Wendy Gaynor (born December 31, 1947) is an entrepreneur and author based in New York City.
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She began her career creating gift baskets out of her home in Sag Harbor, Long Island when she was a single mother of two daughters, Ruby and Violet.[1] The venture led to her opening 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.[2]
After her daughter's recovery she and her husband Michael Davidson opened Ruby et Violette, a gourmet cookie shop in June 2001.[3] It became renown for its extensive variety of chocolate chip cookies.[4][5][6] 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.[7] 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.[8] She became a contributing writer to The Huffington Post in October 2013.[9]
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