She’s my favorite character because that’s how I am. Blair Waldorf is really outgoing and she does whatever it takes to get what she wants. My favorite character would have to be Blair Waldorf. The book is about a person who knows everyone secrets and displays them on and the seniors at Constance Billard School for girls want to know if they’re getting into college. I choose to read this book because I love the show Gossip Girl. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family. She also culled events from the book from the lives of her extremely wealthy friends, as well as her own life as a perpetual gossip.

The Constance Billard School for Girls in Gossip Girl is based upon an exaggerated version of von Ziegesar's alma mater, Nightingale. A spin-off series, The It Girl, made the list in 2005. The series climbed to the top of The New York Times best-sellers list in 2002. Von Ziegesar returned to the United States to study creative writing at the University of Arizona, but dropped out shortly thereafter.īack 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. After graduating from Nightingale, von Ziegesar attended Colby College before spending a year in Budapest working for a local radio station. to attend the Nightingale-Bamford School. 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.Īs a teenager, von Ziegesar commuted to Manhattan at 6 a.m.

Cecily von Ziegesar is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl novels, upon which the hit television show is based.Ĭecily von Ziegesar was born in New York City.

The It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar