Bruce Sussman
Bruce Howard Sussman is an American lyricist who has written 206 songs in collaboration with Barry Manilow since 1972. Together they have also written the score of the films Copacabana, Thumbelina and The Pebble and the Penguin and the musicals Copacabana and Harmony. He also worked on the Off-Broadway musical Whoop-Dee-Doo!.
He is married to columnist Rob Shuter since 2011.