Edison Price "Ned" Vizzini (April 4, 1981 - December 19, 2013) was an American writer. He is best known for writing It's Kind of a Funny Story. In 2010 a movie of the novel was released. Vizzini had depression. He spent a week in a psychiatric hospital in 2004 after he called a suicide hotline. He based It's Kind of a Funny Story on his experience there. Vizzini was found dead on December 19, 2013 in New York. He had killed himself by jumping off a building.
Early life
Vizzini was born in Brooklyn in New York City. He went to Stuyvesant High School.
Career
Vizzini's first book It's Kind of a Funny Story was published in 2006.
References
Other websites
Ned Vizzini speaks about 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' on 'YA Visions' (2010)