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He attended the Buckley School (New York City), the Riverdale Country School, and was graduated from Harvard College in January 2007.

He wrote the novel Twelve in 2002, at age 17. The subject of the novel is disaffection, despair, drug use and violence among a group of wealthy Manhattan teenagers during Christmas break. The publication of McDonell's novel at such a young age was the subject of many articles in high-profile publications such The New Yorker and Entertainment Weekly.

Twelve has been translated into over twenty languages, was on all major American best-seller lists, UK bestseller lists and was number one on German bestseller lists.

Suggestions of Nepotism: Both McDonell’s parents are writers and editors. His mother Joan McDonell is a novelist and screenwriter. His father, Terry McDonell is editor of Sports Illustrated and was once managing editor of Rolling Stone where Hunter Thompson was a contributing editor and a friend. Thompson gave a quote to McDonell when Twelve was published, as did Richard Price and Joan Didion, both personal friends of the family. Morgan Entrekin president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic which published the book is close to the family as well. ]]> Manhattan, New York 1984/01/04 175887 184354072X 9781843540724 50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172438674m/175887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172438674s/175887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175887.Twelve 2.93 307 96430 3.01 632 111 2002 871010 1843544784 9781843544784 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179073728m/871010.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179073728s/871010.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/871010.The_Third_Brother 3.03 38 Twelve created a sensation around the world, establishing its seventeen-year-old author as one of the new and important voices of his generation. The Third Brother is his highly anticipated second novel. Mike is a journalist interning in Hong Kong when his editor gives him the assignment: find Christopher Dorr, a brilliant journalist gone AWOL. So begins a propulsive journey that will take a young man headlong through fast nights in Thailand, into the grip of family tragedy, and into the heart of September 11, 2001. Along the way he encounters a kaleidoscope of characters -- the Flying Circus, a hard-living band of journalists trying to expose the Thai government's murderous repression of drug dealers; Tweety, an inexplicably alluring prostitute hungry to leave her world of poverty and desperation; and the third brother, a mysterious, imaginary sibling created by Mike's haunted older brother. The Third Brother moves with the speed and purpose of a bullet, offering a devastating portrait of a family caught between love and turmoil, and of a young man stretching to come to terms with his past and to find his future.]]> 96430 3.01 632 111 2005 6005981 0802118933 9780802118936 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256000034m/6005981.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256000034s/6005981.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6005981.An_Expensive_Education 2.82 57 Nick McDonell’s third novel takes his readers into Harvard&#8212through its dormitories and dining halls, into its elite finals clubs and lecture halls, and within the offices of its ambitious professors&#8212giving us an incredibly authentic insider’s view of this illustrious university. A powerful portrait of personalities all ensnared in the African conflict and of the Harvard campus on which the debate takes place, An Expensive Education is a smart, relentless novel set at the troubled intersection of ivory academia and realpolitik.</DIV>]]> 96430 3.01 632 111 2009 6042113 2081217325 9782081217324 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6042113.Guerre_Harvard 3.00 3 96430 3.01 632 111 2762113 3.00 3 1 2008 7364070 0802144810 9780802144812 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7364070-an-expensive-education 0.0 0 96430 3.01 632 111 2010 7187543 1848870639 9781848870635 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7187543-an-expensive-education 0.0 0 96430 3.01 632 111 2010