Angela Nissel

Angela R. Nissel (born December 5, 1978) is an American author best known for her first book, The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke. She is also a writer and co-producer for Scrubs and is working on a television series with Halle Berry, who optioned both of Nissel's books. More recently, she worked as a writer for the fourth season of the The Boondocks series, being credited with writing five and co-writing two out of 10 episodes.

Nissel's second book, Mixed: My Life in Black and White, is a comedic look at growing up as the child of a biracial couple.

Nissel was born and raised in Philadelphia. She attended the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, where she majored in Creative Writing, and also graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 with a degree in medical anthropology.

Her book The Broke Diaries has been featured on Oprah. She was featured with her mother on 20/20, which also featured her book, Mixed.

On October 28, 2006, Nissel made her debut as a panelist on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. In 1999, she founded the music-related website Okayplayer with The Roots' drummer Ahmir Thompson.

Nissel's first book was promoted in non-traditional ways. In one case, her friend applied "Buy The Broke Diaries!" stickers to ramen noodle packages and passed them out near bookstores. She also promoted it in her signature when she posted on Internet forums.

USA Today praised the book as being "the New Economy's version of Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell's 1933 book about the urban poor."

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