About the Author

Grammy Award-winning singer Gloria Gaynor took the music world by storm in the 1970s, striking platinum with her disco hit "I Will Survive." "I Will Survive" was the only song to earn a Grammy for Best Disco Recording and was one of only twenty-five songs inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2012. Gaynor has appeared on countless television and radio shows, received numerous national and international music and humanitarian awards, and continues to perform around the world for legions of fans. Her most requested song is, of course, "I Will Survive." Coauthor Sue Carswell, author of Faded Pictures from My Backyard (Ballantine), is a reporter-researcher at Vanity Fair and has ghost-written numerous books. She is a former executive and senior editor at Random House, Inc. and Simon and Schuster, Inc., a former story producer for Good Morning America, and correspondent for People magazine.