Gwen Cooper is a New York City-based American novelist and author of the 2009 New York Times bestselling memoir Homer?s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat, a memoir about her life with an abandoned, eyeless cat that she rescued when he was three weeks old and subsequently named Homer. In 2007, Simon & Schuster published Cooper?s first novel, Diary of a South Beach Party Girl, inspired in part by Cooper?s own experiences living and working in Miami?s trendy South Beach in the late 1990s. Cooper?s third book, Love Saves the Day, a novel told from the point of view of a cat named Prudence, was published by Random House in January, 2013. Set in both New York City?s Lower East Side during the 1970s/1980s and on the present-day Upper West Side, the novel takes its name from two inspirations: The Love Saves The Day vintage store located on Manhattan's East Village and from the ?Love Saves The Day? gatherings of the early 1970s, well-known underground parties that were the proving ground of Dee-Jays and modern dance music.