Cecily von Ziegesar — American Author born on June 27, 1970,
Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar is an American author best known for the young adult Gossip Girl series of novels... (wikipedia)
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.
