Elizabeth Wurtzel

Novelist

Birthday July 31, 1967

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace New York

DEATH DATE Jan 7, 2020 (52)

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About

Author and journalist whose best-selling memoir, Prozac Nation, was published in 1994. The work was adapted into a 2001 film.

Before Fame

She suffered from depression beginning at age ten and was plagued by the mental illness during her time at Harvard University.

Trivia

She received her J.D. from Yale Law School and was later employed by the Boies, Schiller & Flexner firm. 

Family Life

She was raised in New York City by parents who divorced when she was a child.

Associated With

Her memoir Prozac Nation was made into a film starring Christina Ricci.