Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Elizabeth Wurtzel, in Brooklyn, NY (October 2014)
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| Born | Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel July 31, 1967 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, journalist, lawyer |
| Nationality | American |
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Harvard College Yale Law School |
| Genre | Confessional memoir |
| Notable works | Prozac Nation |
| Spouse | James Freed (m. 2015) |
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967) is an American writer and journalist, known for publishing her best-selling memoir Prozac Nation, at the age of 26. She holds a BA in comparative literature from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School.
Wurtzel was brought up in New York City in a Jewish family. Her parents divorced when she was young. As described in her memoir Prozac Nation, Wurtzel's depression began at the ages of 10 to 12. She attended the Ramaz School in New York City. While an undergraduate at Harvard College, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and The Dallas Morning News; she was fired from the latter publication in 1988 after being accused of plagiarism. Wurtzel also received the 1986 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award. Wurtzel subsequently moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and found work as pop music critic for The New Yorker and New York Magazine. A critic for The New York Times characterized her contributions to the former publication as "unintentionally hilarious."
Wurtzel is best known for her best-selling 1994 memoir Prozac Nation, published when she was 26. The book chronicles her battle with depression as a college undergraduate and her experience with the medication Prozac. The film adaptation of Prozac Nation, starring Christina Ricci, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2001. It was telecast on the Starz! network in March 2005 and released on DVD in the summer of 2005.
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