Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich (born 1969) is an American author from Princeton, New Jersey. He graduated magna-cum-laude from Harvard University in 1991. He has since published eleven books which have together sold over three million copies in twenty different languages. Some of his books have been written under the pseudonym Holden Scott . Mezrich attended Princeton Day School, in Princeton, New Jersey. He is known for his non-fiction books, which most of them have a lengthy title and details real-life events.

He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Written work

Mezrich is best known for his first non-fiction work, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (ISBN 0-7432-4999-2). This book tells the story of a group of students from MIT who bet on blackjack games using a sophisticated card counting system, earning millions of dollars at casinos in Las Vegas and other gambling centers in the United States and the Caribbean. The story was made into the movie 21 , released in 2008.

In 2004, Mezrich published a new book called Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions (ISBN 0-06-057500-X). Also a nonfiction work, this book recounts the exploits of an American named John Malcolm, who was an assistant securities trader.

In 2005 Mezrich published Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees (ISBN 0060575123) a semi-sequel to Bringing Down the House . The book tells the story of another student involved in a similar Blackjack team, but one that used more advanced techniques than the ones discussed in the first book.

In 2007, Mezrich published Rigged (ISBN 0061252727) which recounts a largely fictional account of the formation of what would eventually become the Dubai Mercantile Exchange by two young visionaries, one in the New York Mercantile Exchange and the other in the Dubai Ministry of Finance.

Mezrich published a new book in July 2009 about Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, titled The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal (ISBN 0385529376). It debuted at #4 on the New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller List, and #1 on the Boston Globe Nonfiction Bestseller List.

Fiction

• Threshold (1996, ISBN 0446605212)
• Reaper (1998, ISBN 0060187514)
• Fertile Ground (1999, ISBN 0061097985)
• Skin (a story set as an X-Files episode), (2000, ISBN 0061056448)
• Skeptic (written under the pen name Holden Scott), (2000, ISBN 0312969287)
• The Carrier (written under the pen name Holden Scott), (2001, ISBN 0312978588)
• Rigged : The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, From Wall Street to Dubai (2007, ISBN 0061252727)

Non-fiction

• Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (2002, ISBN 0-7432-4999-2)
• Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions (2004, ISBN 0-06-057500-X)
• Busting Vega$: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees (2005, ISBN 0060575123)
• The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal (2009, ISBN 0385529376)

Other projects

Mezrich is the co-host of season 3 of the GSN series The World Series of Blackjack and the World Blackjack Tour. He also represented Massachusetts as a contestant in the Sexiest Bachelor in America Pageant on Fox in 2000. Fatal Error is a TBS premiere movie adaptation of his second book, Reaper, starring Antonio Sabato, Jr. and Robert Wagner. Skin was originally written as an X-Files episode. Rigged was optioned by Mark Cuban's 2929 as well as "Q" a work of fiction by Mezrich. Ugly Americans has been optioned by Summit, the screenplay was written by Robert Schenkkan, pulitzer prize-winning writer of The Quiet American , and a draft also completed by Mezrich himself. The Social Network , based on The Accidental Billionaires is greenlit and scheduled to begin filming in the fall of 2009 with David Fincher as director, and Aaron Sorkin as adaptive screenwriter, a Columbia Pictures film.

References

1. ^ Rivlin, Gary (2007-12-30). "A Strategy Up Their Sleeves". The New York Times . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/fashion/30blackjack.html . Retrieved 2008-01-25 .  
2. ^ "MIT Blackjack Movie Set for Release". Online Casino News . http://www.onlinecasinonews.com/ocnv2_1/article/article.asp?id=15819 . Retrieved 2008-01-25 .  
3. ^ Bellafante, Gina (2004-05-23). "What Do Men Really Want (To Read About)?". The New York Times . http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/fashion/23MEZR.html?position=&ei=5007&en=0a80b7723f635439&ex=1400644800&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=all&position= . Retrieved 2008-01-25 .  
4. ^ Leddy, Chuck (2007-12-27). "In 'Rigged', Mezrich Ups the Ante on Wall Street". The Boston Globe . http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/12/27/in_rigged_mezrich_ups_the_ante_on_wall_street/ . Retrieved 2008-01-25 .  
5. ^ Moses, Asher (2009-07-09). "Did Facebook founder eat koala?". Stuff.co.nz . http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2579691/Did-Facebook-founder-eat-koala . Retrieved 2009-07-09 .  
6. ^ "The Sexiest Bachelor in America" . http://tv.yahoo.com/the-sexiest-bachelor-in-america/show/22483/castcrew . Retrieved 2008-01-25 .  

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