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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. Wurtzel's work drove a boom in confessional writing and the personal memoir genre during. Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of the best-selling 1994 memoir Prozac Nation which detailed her struggles with depression and addiction, has died aged 52.. 13 June 2019. How Prozac entered the.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel — the author of memoir 'Prozac Nation' — died in a New York City hospital on Tuesday, January 7.. she had become obsessed with the new Beck album, 2019's Hyperspace.. Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose 1994 memoir "Prozac Nation" ignited conversations about the then-taboo topic of clinical depression, has died. She was 52.. May 26, 2019, at age 85 in Birmingham. Jan. 7, 2020. Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose startling 1994 memoir, "Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America," won praise for opening a dialogue about clinical depression and helped introduce. By Janelle Griffith. Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of "Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America," died Tuesday at a hospital in Manhattan, a family spokeswoman said. She was 52. The author.

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Jia Tolentino writes about the memoirist and "Prozac Nation" author Elizabeth Wurtzel, who has died, at the age of fifty-two.. the essay collection "Trick Mirror," was published in 2019. Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel, writer, born 31 July 1967; died 7 January 2020 This article was amended on 14 January 2020. A reference to Elizabeth Wurzel announcing she had cancer in 2019 has been deleted. Arts Jan 7, 2020 3:20 PM EST. NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the best-selling "Prozac Nation" made. Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose 1994 memoir Prozac Nation became a mainstay on bestseller lists and inspired a national conversation about clinical depression, has died at the age of 52. David Lipsky, a.

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A post shared by Elizabeth Wurtzel (@elizabethwurtzel) on Sep 11, 2019 at 11:40am PDT.. Elizabeth Wurtzel on Discovering the Truth About Her Parents. At age 50 I discovered my father is a. Elizabeth Wurtzel, the author of Prozac Nation, has died at the age of 52. Wurtzel was known for detailing her struggles with depression and drug addiction in a best-selling memoir that sparked a. Elizabeth Wurtzel was 27 years old when her memoir, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, was published in 1994.It made her a literary star. The book, in which she writes openly of her clinical depression and her use of fluoxetine (Prozac), a drug that at that time had only recently been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, galvanised debate about depression. Jan. 7, 2020 2:24 PM PT. Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of the groundbreaking memoir "Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America," which sparked unprecedented dialogue about clinical depression.

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Sian Cain. Elizabeth Wurtzel, the journalist and author who chronicled her life with depression in the bestselling memoir Prozac Nation, has died at the age of 52. Writer David Samuels, Wurtzel. Elizabeth Wurtzel chronicled her struggles with depression and drug addiction in. whom she married in 2015 but from whom she separated in 2019. Elizabeth Wurtzel, author, born 31 July 1967.