Cecily von Ziegesar
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| Cecily Von Ziegesar | |
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| Born | Cecily Brooke Von Ziegesar June 1970 (age 39) Connecticut |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Writing period | 2002 - present |
| Genres | Drama , Comedy, Short, Romance |
| Notable work(s) | Gossip Girl series The It Girl series |
| Children | Agnes, Oscar |
Cecily von Ziegesar (born 27 June 1970) is an American author of young adult novels. She is mainly known for creating the Gossip Girl books.
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[edit] Early life and education
Von Ziegesar was born in Connecticut, from where she commuted to Manhattan every 6 a.m. to attend The Nightingale-Bamford School.[1] 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.[1]
[edit] Gossip Girl
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 school, Nightingale-Bamford. As well, events from the book are based on her extremely wealthy friends who had "those parents" and "those lives", as well as Von Ziegesar's own life as being a gossip.[2]
Gossip Girl was adapted for television in 2007. The show premiered to mixed reviews and lost more than a million viewers from episode one to two, from 3.65 million[3] to 2.55 million.[4] The rest of the season's viewers went up and down, the highest being 3 million viewers for the final episode of the season and the lowest being 1.80 million viewers for episode eleven.
Controversy surrounding the show was the fact that it failed to show much of the book's plots, character personalities, and other major and minor facts, thus disappointing many fans of the novels. However, von Ziegesar told ABC News that her most major plot lines were there and "at least it takes place in New York".[5]
[edit] Personal life
She resides in Brooklyn with her husband Richard, a manager at a public art fund,[6] their children, Agnes and Oscar,[7] and their nearly hairless cat named Pony Boy.[8]
[edit] Books
[edit] Gossip Girl
- Gossip Girl
- You Know You Love Me
- All I Want Is Everything
- Because I'm Worth It
- I Like It Like That
- You're the One That I Want
- Nobody Does It Better
- Nothing Can Keep Us Together
- Only In Your Dreams
- Would I Lie To You
- Don't You Forget About Me
- It Had to Be You
- I Will Always Love You
[edit] The It Girl
[edit] Gossip Girl: The Carlyles
[edit] The Cum Laude Series
- Cum Laude (coming Fall 2009)[9]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/12058/
- ^ http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Story?id=3628866&page=1
- ^ http://www.abcmedianet.com/Web/progcal/dispDNR.aspx?id=092507_06
- ^ http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/progcal/dispDNR.aspx?id=100207_05
- ^ http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Story?id=3628866&page=2
- ^ http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/12058/index2.html
- ^ http://www.colby.edu/colby.mag/issues/current/articles.php?articleid=410&dept=editorial&issueid=36
- ^ http://www.gossipgirl.net/author.vm
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/arts/06arts-GOSSIPGIRLAU_BRF.html?scp=2&sq=cecily%20von%20ziegesar%20cum%20laude&st=cse
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