Cecily Von Ziegesar

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.