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Cecily von Ziegesar
American author (born 1970)
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Early seek and education
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Career
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Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar (born June 27, 1970) is an American author best known for the young adult Gossip Girl series of novels.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Cecily von Ziegesar was born in New York City. Her childhood dream was to grow up to be a ballerina; she began lessons at age 3 and auditioned for the School of American Ballet at age 8, but was rejected. As a teenager, von Ziegesar commuted to Manhattan at 6 a.m. to attend the Nightingale-Bamford School. After graduating from Nughtingale, von Ziegesar attended Colby College before spending a year in Budapest working for a local radio station. Von Ziegesar returned to the United States to study creative writing at the University of Arizona, but dropped out shortly thereafter.
Gossip Girl []
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Back in New York, while working at book-packaging firm Alloy Entertainment, von Ziegesar became inspired to create the Gossip Girl series, which follows the lives of privileged teenagers in New York. The series climbed to the top of The New York Times best-sellers list in 2002. A spin-off series, The It Girl, made the list in 2005. The Constance Billard School for Girls in Gossip Girl is based upon an exaggerated version of von Ziegesar's alma mater, Nighting
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Cecily Von Ziegesar
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Cecily Von Ziegesar herself attended one of the smart private schools in Manhattan, New York, and many of the tales told in Gossip Girl have a ring of authenticity. After leaving school, von Ziegesar went to Colby College, a small, liberal arts college in Maine. After she left college, she spent a year working for a radio station in Budapest. She then went back to the US and studied creative writing at the University of Arizona. She went to live in London for a short while and worked for a publishing company. Upon returning to the US she moved to New York and started working for a book packaging firm. It was while she was working there that she came up with the idea for the Gossip Girl series. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, her daughter and son, and two Cornish Rex cats.
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Series
Books:
Cobble Hill, August 2021Trade Size / e-Book
Cobble Hill, October 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Dark Horses, September 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer, October 2011
Paperback