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Ned Vizzini


Born
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
April 04, 1981

Died
December 19, 2013

Genre
Young Adult


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. 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 lived in New York City. Vizzini's characters and situations are said be based upon his time spent at Stuyvesant. ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 313,337 ratings · 19,359 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors
It's Kind of a Funny Story
4.08 avg rating — 254,917 ratings — published 2006 — 48 editions
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Be More Chill
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Teen Angst? Naaah...
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The Other Normals
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“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
tags: depression, sadness, suicide
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“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
tags: depression, sadness, suicide
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“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
tags: depression, sadness, suicide
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