Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020)

Elizabeth Wurtzel is the bestselling author of Prozac Nation and Bitch. After graduating from Harvard College, she was the popular music critic for The New Yorker and New York magazine. Her articles have also appeared in Glamour, Mademoiselle, Mirabella, Seventeen, and the Oxford American. She mehr anzeigen lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) Elizabeth Wurtzel was the bestselling author of Prozac Nation and Bitch. After graduating from Harvard College, she was the popular music critic for The New Yorker and New York magazine. Her articles have also appeared in Glamour, Mademoiselle, Mirabella, Seventeen, and the Oxford American. She chronicled her struggle with depression and drug addiction in best-selling memoirs that helped spur a boom in confessional writing, turning her into a Gen X celebrity at 26. She struggled with breast cancer in 2015 and underwent a double mastectomy, but the breast cancer had metastasized to her brain. Elizabeth Wurtzel passed away on January 7, 2020 at the age of 52. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen