JUST IN: Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of 'Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America', has died at age 52, her husband says.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of"Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America," died Tuesday at a hospital in Manhattan, her husband said. She was 52.that she had breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy.The Washington PostWurtzel rose to fame with the publication of"Prozac Nation," published in 1994 when she was 26. The memoir documented her struggles with depression and substance abuse. The book garnered wide acclaim for sparking dialogue about clinical depression.
Wurtzel also wrote the essay collection"Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women" and the memoir"More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction," which were met with less acclaim., “Lizzie’s literary genius rests not just in her acres of quotable one-liners but in her invention of what was really a new form, which has more or less replaced literary fiction — the memoir by a young person no one has ever heard of before.
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