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 Collge, a small, liberal arts college in Maine. After she left college, she spent a year working for a radio station in Budapest. She then returned 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 which specialised in coming up with ideas for fictional series. It was while she was working there that she came up with the idea for the Gossip Girl series.

Gossip Girl 9, 10 and 11 were published in April 2008.

Gossip Girl, author
Gossip Girl 2: You Know You Love Me, author
Gossip Girl 3: All I Want Is Everything, author
Gossip Girl 4: Because I'm Worth It, author
Gossip Girl 5: I Like It Like That, author
Gossip Girl 6: You're The One I Want, author
Gossip Girl 7: Nobody Does It Better, author
Gossip Girl 8: Nothing Can Keep Us Together, author
Gossip Girl 9: Only in Your Dreams, author
Gossip Girl 10: Would I lie to you?, author
Gossip Girl 11: Don't You Forget About me, author