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Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (July 31, 1967 – January 7, 2020) was an American writer, journalist, and lawyer known for the confessional memoir Prozac Nation, which she published at the age of 27. Her work often focused on chronicling her personal struggles with depression, addiction, career, and relationships.
Jan 8, 2020 · Impossible to ignore, she worked as a music journalist before publishing her explosive memoir, Prozac Nation, in 1994 when she was 27. Groundbreakingly candid, it described her parents’...
Apr 10, 2013 · The drug found fame among laymen, fuelled in part by Elizabeth Wurtzel's bestselling book Prozac Nation. Now it is part of the everyday lexicon. The drug was introduced in the US in 1988 and in...
Jun 16, 2017 · Elizabeth Wurtzel was 27 when she published Prozac Nation, the genre-defining memoir that she now describes as “a joke that started the whole world crying.” In her unflinching account of her life up to that point—her difficult childhood, her turbulent time at Harvard, the “black wave” of depression that hung over her throughout it all ...
Wurtzel graduated from Harvard College in 1989, after receiving a college journalism award from Rolling Stone for her stories in the student-run Crimson newspaper.
Jan 9, 2020 · After the success of Prozac Nation, Wurtzel became a persona: a party girl, a generational spokeswoman, a drug addict, an intellectual, and a famously “difficult” person. She was proud of that, too, considering it an act of feminism.
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Jan 8, 2020 · Wurtzel was soon doing cocaine and heroin, and found herself addicted to Ritalin, which she did not “take” so much as snort, as she recounted in her 2003 addiction memoir, “More, Now, Again.”
