Ned Vizzini

New Yorker, Ned Vizzini began writing about his experiences at Syuyyesant High School for The New York Press at 15. He is now 23 and still contributes, having also written for Newsday and the New York Times Magazine.

His first book Teen Angst? Naaah… was published by Free Spirit Publishing in 2000, when he was 19, and was picked up by Random House US for mass-market distribution in 2002. It was a collection of the stories he had written for New York Press.

Ned lives in the coolest part of Brooklyn, which is the coolest part of New York.
He grew up there with both parents, a brother, a sister, two cats named Snuffy and Molly, two lizards named Xerxes and Slinky, and a Nintendo. He enjoys listening to rock music, playing in a band and going out with friends.

He has a degree in computer science and attempts to make his work with varying degrees of success. Ned spends a lot of time speaking in schools about writing, humour and life.

Be More Chill will be his first book published in UK and it comes out in July 2004.

He has been described as a Holden Caulfield for Generation Y, which is a little worrying as he has never read Catcher in the Rye.