Ben Mezrich
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Ben Mezrich is an American author from Boston, Massachusetts, who started out writing fiction but now has made his foray into non-fiction. He graduated magna-cum-laude from Harvard in 1991. He has since published eight books which have together sold over a million copies in nine different languages. Some of his books have been written under the pseudonym Holden Scott.
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 hundreds of thousands of dollars at casinos in Las Vegas and other gambling centers in the United States and the Caribbean.
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 called Malcolm who was an assistant securities trader to Nick Leeson, the trader who lost around 2 billion dollars and brought down Barings Bank in the early nineties.
Mezrich is the co-host of season 3 of the GSN series The World Series of Blackjack and the World Blackjack Tour.
Mezrich is Jewish.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Works of Fiction
- Threshold (1996)
- Reaper (1998)
- Fertile Ground (1999)
- Skin (a story set as an X-Files episode,) (2000)
- Skeptic (written under the pen name Holden Scott)
- The Carrier (written under the pen name Holden Scott)
[edit] Works of Non-Fiction
- Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (2002)
- Ugly Americans : The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions (2004)
- Busting Vegas : The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees (2005)
[edit] Miscellaneous
- 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, by the same author.
[edit] External links
- Profile of Ben Mezrich, A 2006 Interview with Mezrich on the Inside of Vegas, published at URBANDADDY
- www.benmezrich.net - New York Times Bestselling Author
- Alibris' Listing of Ben Mezrich's Works
- Twenty Questions with Ben Mezrich, a 1999 interview published at wigglefish
- Ben Mezrich: the telling of a true story, a 2004 interview focused on Bringing Down the House, published at Kuro5hin
