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. Īmerican Psycho's Patrick Bateman has met his match in Manhattan's newest, most fabulous trendsetting serial killers, Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen.Ĭecily 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.

Her attempted murder doesn't go unnoticed by Blair, however, who isn't about to let Serena kill whoever she wants-not when there's Cyrus Rose and Chuck Bass and Titi Coates and everyone else who's ever irritated Blair to get rid of first. If that means killing him, well, c'est la vie. But here's where our dark tale takes a turn: Serena decides that the only way for her to make things right with Blair is to eliminate Nate. Just as in the original story, Serena returns from boarding school hoping to make amends with her BFF Blair Waldorf-things just haven't been the same since Nate Archibald came between them. So begins Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer, a re-imagined and expanded slasher edition of the first groundbreaking Gossip Girl novel, featuring all new grisly scenes and over-the-top gore by #1 New York Times bestselling author Cecily von Ziegesar. It's a luxe life, but someone's got to live it. Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep-sometimes with each other.

The It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar