Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Image:Wurtzel.jpg Elizabeth Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American writer. Brought up Jewish, she attended Ramaz for high school. While an undergraduate at Harvard College, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and received the 1986 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award. She has battled heroin abuse and addiction to cocaine and Ritalin. As of 2005, Wurtzel is currently attending Yale Law School.
Wurtzel is most known for publishing her groundbreaking memoir, Prozac Nation, at the age of 26. The book chronicles her battle with depression while a college undergraduate. The film adaptation of Prozac Nation, starring Christina Ricci, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival September 8, 2001 but never had a U.S. theatrical release. It was telecast on the Starz! network during March, 2005 and was released on DVD in the summer of 2005.
In her second book, Bitch, she wrote that feminist writing had become "dry" and she wanted to make it "juicy" again. She focused on what was praiseworthy about "bad girls" such as Amy Fisher. She also published a second autobiographic volume with the title More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction (2001), which is centered on drug addiction. She has also written for The New Yorker and New York Magazine.
Bibliography
- Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir (1994)
- Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (1999)
- The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women (2001) (previously published as Radical Sanity)
- More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction (2001)
