“Prozac Nation” author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies after long battle with metastatic breast cancer
“Prozac Nation" 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 candour and accused her of self-pity and self-indulgence, vices she fully acknowledged.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, died Tuesday at age 52.
“Prozac Nation" 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 candour and accused her of self-pity and self-indulgence, vices she fully acknowledged. “I don't mean to sound like a spoiled brat," she wrote. "I know that into every sunny life a little rain must fall and all that, but in my case, the crisis-level hysteria is an all-too-recurring theme."Newsweek called her ''the famously depressed Elizabeth Wurtzel.'' She was widely ridiculed after a 2002 interview within which she spoke dismissively of the September 11 terrorist attacks from the year before.
But many readers embraced her story and would credit her with helping them face their own troubles. News of her death on Tuesday was met with expressions of grief and gratitude.
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