Elizabeth Wurtzel

Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (July 31, 1967 – January 7, 2020) was an American feminist writer, essayist and journalist. She was known for publishing her best-selling memoir Prozac Nation, at the age of 27. Wurtzel wrote regularly for The Wall Street Journal.

She was played by Christina Ricci in a movie based on her memoir in 2001.

Wurtzel was born in New York City. She had a BA in comparative literature from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School. In 2015, she married James Freed.

In February 2015, Wurtzel was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy. Wurtzel died of meningitis caused by the cancer in New York City on January 7, 2020, aged 52.

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Other websites

 Everything I know I learned from Bob Dylan by Elizabeth Wurtzel
 1998 interview with Elizabeth Wurtzel by Gerald Peary
 Sole Rock N Roll Survivor  – Wurtzel's piece from The Harvard Crimson which won the 1987 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award
 A Conversation with Elizabeth Wurtzel, Author and First-Year Lawyer October 11, 2008 blog post from WSJ.com

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