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Home! Retour! Vuelta! |
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NED VIZZINI
24-year-old with humorous high school insight! |
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Born April 4, 1981 in New York City, Ned Vizzini has been writing from a very early age. In high school, he sent off an essay to the New York Press, and eventually became a columnist for the paper. From 15 to 18, he wrote freelance columns for teens in the New York Times. Those columns caught the attention of Free Spirit Publishing and became part of his first book, Teen Angst? Naaah..., published in 2000 when Ned was 19, and later as a mass-market book by RandomHouse in 2002. In 2004, Ned published his second novel, Be More Chill, with Hyperion/Miramax Books, a fiction story about a boy who takes a computer-chip pill to become cool. A movie is in the making.
In 2003, Ned graduated from Hunter College with a degree in computer science. Now living in Brooklyn, NY and quickly approaching the ripe old age of 25, Ned's third book, It's Kind of a Funny Story, is due to hit shelves in April 2006. |
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Vizzini advizes aspiring authors that the easy part is submitting but that writers should "prepare to be rejected, but, really, just have the guts to do it."
Besides reading and writing, Ned's hobbies include listening to and playing rock music, running his website, and answering email.
Ned's favorite authors and stories include George Orwell, Michael Crichton, Stephen King, the Narnia books, anything by Jim Knipfel, Jonathan Ames, or Jerry Stahl He has never read Harry Potter.
Did you know?: Be More Chill was chosen by author Judy Blume as a Today Show Book Club selection!
Click here to read YAW's 03/14/06 interview with Ned! |
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Chat in Ned's forum,
click here! |
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BOOKS BY: NED
(click title go to Amazon.com!) |
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Teen Angst? Naaah... |
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Be More Chill |
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It's Kind of a Funny Story |
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Sixteen : Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday |
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Not Like I'm Jealous or Anything : The Jealousy Book |
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