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Ned Vizzini
American writer
Edison Price Vizzini (April 4, 1981 – December 19, 2013) was an American writer. He was the author of four books for young adults, including It's Kind of a Funny Story (2006), which NPR placed at #56 in its list of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" and which is the basis of the film of the same name.
Vizzini had depression, spending time in a psychiatric ward in his early 20s, and authoring several works about the illness. He was found dead in his native Brooklyn, New York after an apparent suicide from a fall, aged 32.
Early life
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. Vizzini's characters and situations are said to be based upon his time spent at Stuyvesant.
Career
Vizzini's first published work was an essay he submitted to the New York Press, an alternative newspaper, about winning honorable mention at the 1996 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. As a freelance writer for the paper, he wrote about everything from family vacations to getting drunk in the street with other kids. The success of Vizzini's work earned him an invitation to contribute a teen-focused article to the New York Times Magazine.
In May 1998, Vizzini's essay "Teen Angst? Nah!" appeared in The New York Times. Following this, several of his New York Press columns became the core of his first book, Teen Angst? Naaah.... which is a memoir of his teenage years. It is a collection of short stories, most of which were originally published in The New York Press and The New York Times Magazine. The book is broken down by years covering junior high through high school and beyond.
Vizzini attended Hunter College, located in Manhattan.
In 2004, his first novel, Be More Chill, was published. A review
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Personal
Born April 4, 1981, in New York, NY; son of James D. (an executive vice president) and Emma (a chief executive officer) Vizzini. Education: Hunter College, B.S. (computer science and English), 2003.
Addresses
Home—New York, NY. Agent—Jay Mandel, William Morris Agency, 1325 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019. E-mail—[email protected].
Career
Journalist. New York Press, New York, NY, contributing writer, 2001-02; freelance writer, 2002-03. Former computer programmer at New York Cityscape, Computer Associates, Edison Price Lighting, and Brain Bridge. Quiktrak, New York, NY, former bike messenger.
Writings
Teen Angst? Naaah …: A Quasi-Autobiography, Free Spirit Publishing (Minneapolis, MN), 2000.
Be More Chill, Miramax (New York, NY), 2004.
It's Kind of a Funny Story, Miramax (New York, NY), 2006.
Contributor of short fiction to anthologies, including Sixteen, Not like I'm Jealous or Anything, Guys Write for Guys Read, and 21 Proms, 2006. Contributor of articles to newspapers and magazines, including Teen and New York Times Magazine. Author of "Since When?" (weekly column), for New York Press.
Author's works have been translated into several languages, including Dutch, German, Italian, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, and Spanish.
Adaptations
Vizzini's books have been adapted for audiobook by Harper Audio. Film rights to Be More Chill were acquired by Depth of Field Productions. Film rights to It's Kind of a Funny Story were acquired by Paramount Pictures, 2006.
Sidelights
Ned Vizzini's first published work was an essay he submitted to the New York Press, about winning a school literary prize. As a freelance writer for the paper, he wrote about everything from family vacations to getting drunk in the street with dangerous urban youth. The success of Vizzini's work earned him an invitation to contribute a teen-focused article to the New York Times. His New York Press columns event Entry updated 16 January 2023. Tagged: Author. (1981-2013) US journalist and author born Edward Vizzini (name legally changed) who committed Suicide due to profound clinical depression; much of his nonfiction work, assembled in Teen Angst? Naaah (coll 2000), deals in various ways with the ways this illness afflicts adolescents and young men and women, as does his second novel, the nonfantastic It's Kind of a Funny Story (2006). His first novel, the Young AdultBe More Chill (2004), in which an unhappy teenager ingests a quantum Computer which coercively transforms his life, also reflects these issues. The Other Normals (2012) carries a young addict of Role Playing Games into a place where the creators and the created of Creatures & Caverns meet him, perhaps inviting him to escape into another Dimensions. The House of Secrets sequence with Chris Columbus, beginning with House of Secrets (2013), is fantasy. [JC] born New York: 4 April 1981 died New York: 19 December 2013 works series House of Secrets individual titles nonfiction links previous versions of this entry Author and television writer Ned Vizzini, who achieved fame at a young age but also wrote openly about his struggles with depression, took his own life Thursday in Brooklyn, said a spokeswoman for the chief medical examiner of New York. He was 32. His brother, Daniel, said he jumped from the roof of his parents’ home, according to an Associated Press report. Vizzini’s comic and autobiographical writing, while still a high school student in New York, drew critical acclaim. More recently he lived in Los Angeles where he wrote for television shows including MTV’s “Teen Wolf,” and he was working as executive story editor on the upcoming NBC science fiction series “Believe,” created by director Alfonso Cuarón, with J.J. Abrams as an executive producer. Vizzini was also collaborating with writer and director Chris Columbus on the “House of Secrets” fantasy series of books. “He was the perfect collaborator, with a brilliant imagination and a sharp sense of humor,” Columbus said in an email Friday. “I’ve spent nearly every day over the past two years working closely with him, and I can’t fathom a world without him.” Ned Vizzini was born on April 4, 1981, in New York. In addition to his brother, survivors include his wife, Sabra, and their son. Vizzini was still a teenager when he drew the attention of New York literary circles. At 15 he began writing humorous essays about high school life for the New York Press, an alternative weekly. That led to an invitation, at 17, to write for the New York Times Magazine. His piece for that publication, “Teen Angst? Naaah...,” also appeared in a collection of his essays published when he was 19. But his early successes were little comfort. Shortly after his 2004 novel, “Be More Chill,” was published to positive reviews and nationwide exposure — including an appearance on the “Today” show — Vizzini checked himself in to a psychiatric ward at New York Methodist Ho Ned Vizzini
Ned Vizzini dies at 32; author wrote openly about his depression