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It's Kind of a Funny Story

Ned Vizzini

  • 444 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2006
  • 9 editions
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1 About this book

It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2006 novel by American author Ned Vizzini. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004. The book received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association.

A film adaptation, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, was released in the United States on October 8, 2010.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Juvenile Wit and humor
  • Humor
  • Depression
  • Mental illness
  • Mental Depression
  • Psychiatric hospitals
  • Youths' writings
  • Children's fiction

2 About Ned Vizzini

1981–2013

Edison Price Vizzini (April 4, 1981 – December 19, 2013) was an American writer. He was the author of four books for young adults, including It's Kind of a Funny Story (2006), which NPR placed at #56 in its list of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" and which is the basis of the film of the same name. Vizzini had depression, spending time in a psychiatric ward in his early 20s, and authoring several works about the illness.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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