Prozac Nation gave a voice to Gen-Xers living with mental illness, particularly those who grew up with less-than-stellar home lives.
Elizabeth Wurtzel was a writer, through and through. Wurtzel attended Harvard College, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson, and later went on to attend Yale Law School.ĭon't let her brief law career fool you, however. She later learned, after her initial breast cancer diagnosis, that he was not her father at all. Her parents were divorced, her father almost totally absent. In celebration of her life and the impact her unapologetic 1994 memoir Prozac Nation has had, we're spotlighting quotes to remember Elizabeth Wurtzel by.īorn in New York City in 1967, Wurtzel began writing professionally at age 16.
The world lost a great writer on Tuesday, as news broke of memoirist Elizabeth Wurtzel's death from metastatic breast cancer at age 52.
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