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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 millions 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 '' (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. He also represented Massachusetts as a contestant in the Sexiest Bachelor in America Pageant on Fox in 2000.
Mezrich is Jewish.

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Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

Miscellaneous

External links

Bibliography

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)

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, ISBN 0060575123)

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.

External links

★ Ben Mezrich - the official site

★ 2007 PokerMoments Interview with Ben Mezrich, focusing on his upcoming movie entitled 21

★ Profile of Ben Mezrich, A 2006 Interview with Mezrich on the Inside of Vegas, published at URBANDADDY

★ 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

★ Ben Mezrich at Yahoo! TV