Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the best-selling 'Prozac Nation' made her a voice and a target for an anxious generation, has died at age 52
Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the best-sellingWurtzel's husband, Jim Freed, told The Associated Press that she died at a Manhattan hospital after a long battle with cancer.was published in 1994 when Wurtzel was in her mid-20s and set off a debate that lasted for much of her life. Critics praised her for her candor and accused her of self-pity and self-indulgence, vices she fully acknowledged.
Wurtzel became a celebrity, a symbol and, for some, a punchline. Newsweek called her ''the famously depressed Elizabeth Wurtzel.'' She was widely ridiculed after a 2002 interview with the The Toronto Globe and Mail in which she spoke dismissively of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks from the year before.
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