Elizabeth Wurtzel, the journalist and author who chronicled her life with depression in the bestselling memoir Prozac Nation, has died at the age of 52. Writer David Samuels, Wurtzel’s friend since childhood, told the New York Times that Wurtzel had died in New York from metastatic breast cancer on Tuesday. I miss her.”Born in 1967, Wurtzel grew up as an only child in New York City and wrote her first book aged six. The New York Times Book Review labelled her “Sylvia Plath with the ego of Madonna”, while Kirkus called the book “an excruciating portrait of, even cause for, depression. I had the great and unexpected success of Prozac Nation in 1994, and that bought me freedom.

Source: The Guardian January 07, 2020 16:52 UTC