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Ben Mezrich


Ben Mezrich (born February 7, 1969) is an American author from Princeton, New Jersey. Mezrich was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Molli Newman, a lawyer, and Dr. Reuben Mezrich, a chairman of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and he was raised in a conservative Jewish family. Mezrich attended Princeton Day School, in Princeton, New Jersey. He graduated magna-cum-laude with a degree in Social Studies from Harvard University in 1991. Some of his books have been written under the pseudonym Holden Scott. He is known for his non-fiction books.

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. 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. In 2005 Mezrich published Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees a semi-sequel to Bringing Down the House. In 2007, Mezrich published Rigged. 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. It debuted at No. 4 on the New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller List, and No. 1 on the Boston Globe Nonfiction Bestseller List. Aaron Sorkin adapted the book for the screenplay of the film The Social Network, which was released on October 1, 2010.

2014 saw the release of Seven Wonders, Mezrich's first novel since The Carrier in 2001. Seven Wonders is "a fast-moving thriller involving murder, conspiracy, historical mystery, and the Seven Wonders of the World," according to Booklist. In it, the brother of a murdered mathematician takes "a far-flung journey—from Brazil, India, Peru, and beyond—as he unravels the mystery that links the Seven Wonders of the World". Publishers Weekly writes that "Mezrich has written a rollicking adventure with a fantastic behind-the-scenes tour of some of the world's most intriguing spots".

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Books

  1. Threshold
  2. Reaper
  3. Fertile Ground
  4. Skin
  5. Skeptic
  6. The Carrier
  7. Bringing Down the House
  8. Ugly Americans
  9. Busting Vega$
  10. Rigged
  11. The Accidental Billionaires
  12. Sex on the Moon
  13. Straight Flush
  14. Seven Wonders
  15. Once Upon a Time in Russia

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