Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Wurtzel was an American writer and journalist who published her groundbreaking memoir Prozac Nation at 27, becoming a defining Generation X voice.
Raised on New York's Upper West Side by her mother after her parents' divorce, she later discovered photographer Bob Adelman was her biological father.
Despite battling depression from age ten, Wurtzel excelled at Harvard College, winning the Rolling Stone College Journalism Award.
She worked as a pop music critic before writing candidly about her struggles with depression, addiction, and relationships.
Her provocative, confessional style drew both praise and criticism.
After law school at Yale, she practiced law while continuing to write.
Wurtzel died in 2020 at 52 from breast cancer complications.
