Angela R. Nissel (born December 5, 1978) is an author best known for her first book, The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke. She is also a writer and co-producer for Scrubs and is working on a television series with Halle Berry, who optioned both of Nissel's books.
Nissel's second book, Mixed: My Life in Black and White, is a comedic look at growing up as the child of a biracial couple.
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Angela R. Nissel (born December 5, 1978) is an author best known for her first book, The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke. She is also a writer and co-producer for Scrubs and is working on a television series with Halle Berry, who optioned both of Nissel's books.
Nissel's second book, Mixed: My Life in Black and White, is a comedic look at growing up as the child of a biracial couple.
Nissel was born and raised in Philadelphia. She attended the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, where she majored in Creative Writing, and also graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 with a degree in medical anthropology.
Her book The Broke Diaries has been featured on Oprah. She was featured on 20/20 with her mother, which also featured her book, Mixed.
USA Today praised the book as being "the New Economy's version of Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell's 1933 book about the urban poor."...
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