Obituary: Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of 'Prozac Nation,' the best-selling 1994 memoir about her struggles with clinical depression, was a defining voice of Generation X
Elizabeth Wurtzel, a memoirist who helped launch a cottage industry of personal storytelling with her 1994 bestseller, “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America,” died Tuesday in New York City, according to a spokeswoman for publisher Simon & Schuster. She was 52 years old and had advanced breast cancer.
Ms. Wurtzel’s candid account of her struggles as a girl and a young woman with clinical depression in “Prozac Nation” made her a defining voice of Generation X.
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