Ben Mezrich

With a writing career spanning 19 years, Ben Mezrich has authored 25 books with a combined printing of over 10 million copies. This includes the wildly successful Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, which spent 63 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, sold over 2 million copies in 15 languages, and was adapted into the No. 1 box office movie 21. His book, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list and spent 18 weeks there in hardcover and paperback, as well as hit bestseller lists in over a dozen countries.

The book was adapted into the movie The Social Network and was No. 1 at the box office. It won Golden Globes for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Score, and was nominated for eight Oscars, winning three including Best Adapted Screenplay. Ben and Aaron Sorkin shared a prestigious Scripter Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as well. Ben is the only non-fiction author to have two No. 1 box office movie adaptations, which has earned him the title of Sexiest Author on People's Sexiest Man Alive list.

Ben cracked the Hollywood Reporter’s annual hot list: Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors. This power list of authors touted to be “the industry’s most sought-after word nerds” is based on stats like Ben’s multiple book-to-movie deals in production, such as Woolly, Seven Wonders, Once Upon a Time in Russia, and The 37th Parallel.

Ben’s newest book, Bitcoin Billionaires, chronicles the second act of wonder twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss as they claw their way through Silicon Valley and come out on top as the first bitcoin billionaires after an unlikely-to-win battle with the omnipotent empire – Facebook.