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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.