Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the bestselling 'Prozac Nation' made her a voice and a target for an anxious generation, died Tuesday at age 52.
This undated photo provided by Penguin Random House shows the book cover of Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir,"Prozac Nation." NEW YORK -- Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the bestselling "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. Wurtzel wrote of growing up in a home torn by divorce, of cutting herself when she was in her early teens, and of spending her adolescence in a storm of tears, drugs, bad love affairs and family fights.
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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