Ned Vizzini

Ned Vizzini was born in New York City and grew up in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. He began writing and publishing essays as a teenager, and these early works were eventually published together in his first book, the memoir Teen Angst? Naaah.... Vizzini attended Hunter College and eventually published his first novel, Be More Chill, in 2004, which was a critical and commercial success. His second novel, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, published in 2006, remains perhaps his best-known work. It was later adapted into a film in 2010. Vizzini continued to write books, essays, criticism, and television during the last years of his life. He died by suicide in 2013.