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.