Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich is an 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 assumed pen-name, Holden Scott.

He is better known for his first non-fiction work, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, a story about 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.

Bibliography

Works of Fiction

• Threshold (1996)
• Reaper (1998)
• Fertile Ground (1999)
• Skin (a story set as an X-files episode, written under the pen name Holden Scott) (2000)
• Skeptic (written under the pen name Holden Scott)

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)

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

• 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