Suzy Gershman

Suzy Gershman (April 13, 1948 – July 25, 2012) was an American writer who authored sixteen "Born to Shop" guidebooks over the course of twenty-six years, beginning in 1986. Her travel guides, which covered the shopping scenes in counties and cities, including Paris and New York, had sold more than four million copies as of 2012. At the time of her death, six guidebooks were revised and republished every two years: France, Hong Kong, Italy, London, Paris, and New York City.

Gershman's diet book How To Take 20 Pounds Off Your Man was featured in a "Diet Book Club Deep Dive" on the podcast Maintenance Phase, co-hosted by Aubrey Gordon and former You're Wrong About host Michael Hobbes. The podcast called the book "a manual for creep behavior masquerading as a diet book".