Ben Mezrich
Né(e): February 07, 1969 – Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Ben Mezrich is an American author known for fast-paced narrative nonfiction about technology, finance, gambling, and entrepreneurship. His best-known books include Bringing Down the House, The Accidental Billionaires, and Bitcoin Billionaires. Several of his works inspired major films, notably 21 and The Social Network, broadening his cultural impact.
Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur
Ben Mezrich emerged from a background that combined elite academic training with unusually early literary drive. Raised in Princeton, New Jersey, he went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard, where he was already writing novels, drawing cartoons for The Harvard Crimson, and contributing to The Harvard Independent. After college he stayed in Boston and wrote obsessively, finishing manuscript after manuscript before finding a durable readership. That long apprenticeship mattered: although he began in fiction, his career took shape when he moved toward a cinematic form of reported storytelling that blended journalistic research with the pacing, dialogue, and momentum of a thriller. ((https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/02/19/ben-mezrich-based-on-a-true-story/?utm_source=openai))
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Voix de la Communauté
"Ben Mezrich is one of our favorite writers"
— Omnivoracious
"Ben Mezrich uses Paul Revere's legacy and the Gardner Museum art heist to craft a delirious, whiplash-generating Boston thriller"
— Shelf Awareness
"I'm a huge fan of Mezrich's nonfiction books"
— Douglas Preston
"Ben Mezrich knows how to find a good story"
— Boston Globe
"Ben Mezrich brings his brand of hot-topic flashpoint narrative non-fiction writing to the thriller world"
— Barnes & Noble
"I love how Ben Mezrich writes: a mix of observational humor, cinematic descriptions, and detailed investigation"
— Katie Couric Media
"Ben Mezrich’s latest straight-to-the-big-screen book ... a rollicking summertime page-turner crackling with sex, astronauts"
— Booklist
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