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| '''Ned Vizzini''', birth name '''Edison Vizzini''', (b. ] ]) is an American author of books for young adults. | |||
| Ned Vizzini grew up primarily in the ] neighborhood of ] in New York City. He attended ] in ], graduating in 1999. While still a teenager, he began to write articles for the ], an alternative newspaper, at around age 19. After he wrote an essay that got published by the ], several of his essays about his young adult life ended up being combined into his first book, ''Teen Angst? Naah...''. Vizzini attended ], also located in Manhattan. Ned Vizzini currently lives in New York City and continues to write and to speak about his books. | |||
| ==Books== | |||
| *''Teen Angst? Naah...''. A "quasi-autobiography" that consists of essays about Vizzini's young years attending Stuyvesant High School. | |||
| *'']''. 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. <!--A movie screenplay based on the book is supposed to be in the works. /rmv for crystallballism/--> | |||
| *''It's Kind of a Funny Story''. Ned 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 ]. | |||
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| * - a forum for discussion of Ned Vizzini's work, occasionally visited by Ned Vizzini. | |||
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