1. Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel was an American writer, journalist, and lawyer known for the confessional memoir Prozac Nation, which she published at the age of 27.
16 Facts About Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Wurtzel's work drove a boom in confessional writing and the personal memoir genre during the 1990s, and she was viewed as a voice of Generation X In her later life, Wurtzel worked briefly as an attorney before her death from breast cancer.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel admitted to cutting herself when she was in adolescence, and of spending her teenage years in an environment of emotional angst, substance misuse, bad relationships, and frequent fights with family members.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel interned at The Dallas Morning News, but was fired after being accused of plagiarism.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel subsequently moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and found work as a pop music critic for The New Yorker and New York Magazine.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel was best known for her best-selling memoir Prozac Nation, published when she was 27.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel later wrote that she never intended to pursue a career as a lawyer, but rather had simply wanted to attend law school.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel received her JD in 2008, but failed the New York state bar exam on her first attempt.
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The legal community criticized Elizabeth Wurtzel for holding herself out as a lawyer in interviews, because she was not licensed to practice law in any jurisdiction at the time.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel continued to work for the firm as a case manager and on special projects.
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On September 21,2008, after the suicide of writer David Foster Wallace, Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote an article for New York magazine about the time she had spent with him.
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In 2009, Elizabeth Wurtzel published an article in Elle magazine about societal pressures related to aging.
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In early 2013, Elizabeth Wurtzel published a New York magazine article lamenting the unconventional choices she had made in life, including heroin use and spending much of a lucrative publisher advance on a costly Birkin bag, and her failure to marry, have children, buy a house, save money or invest for retirement.
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In January 2015, Elizabeth Wurtzel published a short book titled Creatocracy under Thought Catalog's publishing imprint, TC Books.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel met photo editor and aspiring novelist James Freed Jr.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel died in Manhattan from leptomeningeal disease as a complication of metastasized breast cancer on January 7,2020, at age 52.