Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (1967-07-31)July 31, 1967 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died
January 7, 2020(2020-01-07) (aged 52) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Author
journalist
lawyer
Alma mater
Harvard College (BA) Yale Law School (JD)
Genre
Confessional memoir
Years active
1976–2020
Notable works
Prozac Nation
Spouse
James Freed
(m. 2015)
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. Wurtzel's work drove a boom in confessional writing and the personal memoir genre during the 1990s, and she was viewed as a voice of Generation X. In her later life, Wurtzel worked briefly as an attorney before her death from breast cancer.[1][2]
^Williams, Alex (January 9, 2020). "Elizabeth Wurtzel Finally Grew Up, Like the Rest of Gen X". The New York Times. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
^Smith, Harrison (January 7, 2020). "Elizabeth Wurtzel, 'Prozac Nation' author who spurred a memoir boom, dies at 52". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (July 31, 1967 – January 7, 2020) was an American writer, journalist, and lawyer known for the confessional memoir Prozac Nation...
Prozac Nation is a memoir by American writer ElizabethWurtzel published in 1994. The book describes the author's experiences with atypical depression...
Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved March 13, 2019. Wurtzel, Elizabeth (September 21, 2008). "ElizabethWurtzel on Depression and David Foster Wallace". New...
Wurtzel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Wurtzel (born 1985), American television personality ElizabethWurtzel (1967–2020)...
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well-known authors have contributed to the site including Simon Critchley, ElizabethWurtzel, Tao Lin, Nick Mullen, Robert Greene, James Altucher, Mélanie Berliet...
2001, Ricci headlined Prozac Nation, an independent drama based on ElizabethWurtzel's best-selling memoir. The film—Ricci's first outing as a producer—received...
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Roger W. Ferguson Jr., Brian Greene, Amory Lovins, Roger Myerson, and ElizabethWurtzel. Lionel (built 1925): 77 was given by Harvard President A. Lawrence...
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was president of the American Bar Association from 2010 to 2011. ElizabethWurtzel, a writer and journalist, is a former associate. Hunter Biden, son...
on July 4, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2019. Wurtzel, Elizabeth (June 22, 2008). "Bruce almighty, ElizabethWurtzel on Bruce Springsteen's lyrics". The Guardian...
was Ronan Farrow, and the two of them were also close friends with ElizabethWurtzel. After graduating from Yale, Habib practiced law at Washington State's...
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York Dolls, and was branded as being in "a class of its own", while ElizabethWurtzel wrote in The New Yorker that "Pretty on the Inside is such a cacophony ...
University. Adelman was the father of writer ElizabethWurtzel, a fact not disclosed publicly until Wurtzel did so around the time she turned 50 years old...
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freedom of speech and anonymity. On 19 March 2007, an editorial by ElizabethWurtzel in The Wall Street Journal criticized the AutoAdmit law message board...
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