Gwendolen Terasaki was born in 1906 in Johnson City, Tennessee, USA. She was a writer, known for Bridge to the Sun (1961). She was married to Hidenari Terasaki. She died in 1990 in Casper, Wyoming, USA.
During the Second World War lived in Japan with her husband, a Japanese diplomat, with whom she had a daughter. Her 1957 book, Bridge to the Sun, detailed her experiences during those years.