Cecily von Ziegesar (born 1 June 1970) is an American author of young adult novels. She is mainly known for creating the Gossip Girl books.
Von Ziegesar was born in Connecticut, from where she commuted to Manhattan every 6 a.m. to attend The Nightingale-Bamford School. After graduating from Nightingale, Von Ziegesar attended Colby College. Then she spent a year in Budapest working for a local radio station. She then returned to the United States ...
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Cecily von Ziegesar (born 1 June 1970) is an American author of young adult novels. She is mainly known for creating the Gossip Girl books.
Von Ziegesar was born in Connecticut, from where she commuted to Manhattan every 6 a.m. to attend The Nightingale-Bamford School. After graduating from Nightingale, Von Ziegesar attended Colby College. Then she spent a year in Budapest working for a local radio station. She then returned to the United States to study creative writing at the University of Arizona, only to drop out shortly thereafter.
In New York City, while working at book-packaging firm Alloy Entertainment, she became inspired to create the Gossip Girl series, which present a view of high-end teenage lifestyles. The series climbed to the top of the New York Times Best-Sellers list in 2002. The spin-off, The It Girl, made the list in 2005.
The Constance Billard School for Girls, the Gossip Girl characters' elite single-sex school, is based upon Von Ziegesar's all-girls private prep...
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