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Ben Mezrich

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About this author

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.


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Average rating: 3.59 · 21,081 ratings · 3,220 reviews · 23 distinct works
Bringing Down the House: Th...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 10,346 ratings — published 2002 — 25 editions
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The Accidental Billionaires...
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 5,050 ratings — published 2009 — 23 editions
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Sex on the Moon: The Amazin...
3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 2,084 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
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Ugly Americans: The True St...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 1,226 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 1,059 ratings — published 2005 — 17 editions
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Rigged: The True Story of a...
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 966 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions
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Skin
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions
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Reaper
3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
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Threshold
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Fertile Ground
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions
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Quotes by Ben Mezrich

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.”
― Ben Mezrich, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
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“in other words, his story was part boast, part confession.”
― Ben Mezrich, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
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“To guys like Mark, time was another weapon of the establishment, like alphabetical order. The great engineers, hackers - they didn't function under the same time constraints as everyone else.”
― Ben Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
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