Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini, birth name Edison Vizzini, (b. April 4, 1981) is an American author who writes books for young adults.

1 Biography
2 Books
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Vizzini grew up primarily in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduating in 1999.^[1] While still a teenager, he began to write articles for the New York Press, an alternative newspaper.

After he wrote an essay that got published by The New York Times Magazine, several of his essays about his young adult life ended up being combined into his first book, Teen Angst? Naaah.... Vizzini attended Hunter College, also located in Manhattan. Ned Vizzini currently lives in New York City and continues to write and to speak about his books.^[2] Vizzini's characters and situations are said be based upon his time spent at Stuyvesant.^[3]

[edit] Books

Teen Angst? Naaah..., a "quasi-autobiography" that consists of essays about Vizzini's young adult years attending Stuyvesant High School.

Be More Chill, Vizzini's fiction debut follows the adventures of Jeremy Heere, a terminally "uncool" teenage boy. Jeremy's life changes when he buys a "squip", a pill that gives the user instructions on how to be cool.

It's Kind of a Funny Story, Vizzini's second novel follows a depressed young man who becomes suicidal and checks himself into a mental hospital. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004 and its movie rights have been sold to Paramount.