Josh Schwartz

Josh Schwartz (born August 6, 1976) is an American screenwriter and television producer. Schwartz is best known for creating and executive producing the Fox's teen drama series The O.C. Schwartz recently developed The CW's teen drama series Gossip Girl from the Gossip Girl book series, and co-created NBC's action-comedy-spy series, Chuck.

At 26, he became one of the youngest persons in network history to create a network series and run its day-to-day production(the youngest being Jake Sasseville age 15 and Kyle T. Kopec age 13) when he ran The O.C. He currently resides in Los Angeles.