It was her 2002 book, Gossip Girl, however, which brought her to the spotlight. The book, which proved to be a success, spoke about drugs, sex and alcohol among high class New York City teenagers.
In less than two years, von Ziegesar wrote five sequels to Gossip Girl.
Gossip Girl is a popular series of books by Cecilyvon Ziegesar, aimed at teenagers.
The series centres on a group of socialite teenagers, living on New York's Upper East Side, who are rich, spoiled rotten, and can get anything they ask for with the snap of their French manicured fingers.
Constance Billard is a fictional private school based on the Nightingale-Bamford school, a private all-girls school on the Upper East Side, which Cecilyvon Ziegesar attended.