Zoey Dean

{{short description|American novelist}}

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| occupation = Writer

| nationality = American

| period = 2003–present

| genre = Comedy
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| notableworks = A-List series

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Zoey Dean is the pseudonym{{Cite news| title = New York Times Book Review "Young Adult Fiction: Wild Things" March 12, 2006 = | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/books/review/12wolf.html?pagewanted=all | access-date = 2015-09-20 | work=The New York Times | first=Naomi | last=Wolf | date=March 12, 2006}} for the creators of The A-List series and How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls, which has been renamed and turned into a TV show known as Privileged on the CW in September 2008. Zoey Dean's books are produced by the media packager Alloy Entertainment, which created Gossip Girl, The Clique Series, and The A-List and sold them to Little, Brown and Company.{{Cite web| title = Quill & Quire "Trends in YA reading, part two" March 15, 2006 = | url = http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2006/03/15/trends-in-ya-reading-part-two/ | access-date = 2008-04-18}} Books from The Talent Series started appearing in 2008.

According to a biography provided by Alloy Entertainment, Zoey Dean "divides her time between her house in Beverly Hills and lounging around on her favorite small Caribbean islands".{{Cite web|url=http://alloyentertainment.com/authors/zoey-dean/zoey-dean-bio/|title = Alloy Entertainment}} In 2006, The New York Times described Zoey Dean as "a pseudonym for a married writing team". The pseudonym has been jointly used by writers Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld.[http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/zoey-dean Biography: Zoey Dean]. Scholastic Corporation (accessed September 20, 2015)