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Saturday, 5 May 2012

Cecily Von Ziegesar Gossip Girl

Cecily Von Ziegesar Gossip Girl Biography
Cecily von Ziegesar is the author of the Gossip Girl books, a series about a group of rich Manhattan

teenagers and their adventures with sex, drugs, and alcohol. The books have been criticized as nothing more than the written equivalent of a soap opera, but fans believe von Ziegesar speaks honestly about

contemporary teen life. As a critic for Publishers Weekly described the series, "though anyone hoping for character depth or emotional truth should look elsewhere, readers who have always wished Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz would write about teenagers are in for a superficial, nasty, guilty pleasure."

Von Ziegesar herself comes from a wealthy background and swears the events found in her novels are based on real life. She told Rachel Cooke in the Observer: "I was just describing a world that I knew. At high school, one of my best friends would fly Concorde to Paris to get fitted by Yves Saint Laurent." Amelia Hill in the Observer explained what the series' characters are all about: "Von Ziegesar's hard-drinking, bulimic and love-starved teenagers smoke cannabis in Central Park, vomit on monogrammed scarves after a night drinking in a plush hotel, and plot complex sexual escapades at their parents' penthouses." "The whole idea came out of my experience of growing up in New York," von Ziegesar told Lauren Mechling in the Daily Telegraph. Gillian Engberg in Booklist found the Gossip Girl books to be a "campy, scandal-hungry glimpse into the lives of privileged teens in Manhattan's Upper East Side." Hill summed up: "It is a world where overprivileged youngsters take drugs, have sex--often with each others' boyfriends--get raped and drink alcohol until they pass out."

Cecily Von Ziegesar Gossip Girl