Elizabeth Wurtzel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Elizabeth Wurtzel
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jul 31, 1967(1967-07-31)
Age	57
Date Of Death	2020-01-07
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Cancer

Elizabeth Wurtzel Biography

Elizabeth Wurtzel is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 31, 1967 in New York, United States. Journalist and author The best-selling memoir of hers, Prozac Nation, was published in 1994. The book was later adapted into a film in 2001.

The memoir of her Prozac Nation was made into film with Her memoir Prozac Nation was made into a film starring Christina Ricci..

While an undergraduate at Harvard in the late 1980s, Wurtzel wrote for The Harvard Crimson and received the 1986 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award for a piece about Lou Reed. She also interned at The Dallas Morning News, but was fired after being accused of plagiarism. She received a B.A. degree in comparative literature from Harvard in 1989.

Wurtzel’s follow-up memoir to Prozac Nation was titled Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (1998). The book earned a mixed review from Karen Lehrman in The New York Times; Lehrman wrote that while Bitch “is full of enormous contradictions, bizarre digressions and illogical outbursts, it is also one of the more honest, insightful and witty books on the subject of women to have come along in a while.”

The girl was raised within New York City by parents who divorced as a young child.

Elizabeth Wurtzel Net Worth

Elizabeth Wurtzel is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elizabeth Wurtzel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was depressed from when she was ten years old and was plagued by mental illness throughout her years studying at Harvard University.

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

Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (July 31, 1967 – January 7, 2020) was an American writer and journalist, known for the confessional memoir Prozac Nation, which she published at the age of 27. Her work often focused on chronicling her personal struggles with depression, addiction, career, and relationships. 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 later life, Wurtzel worked briefly as an attorney before her death from breast cancer.

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Who is Elizabeth Wurtzel Dating?

According to our records, Elizabeth Wurtzel married to Jim Freed. As of December 1, 2023, Elizabeth Wurtzel’s is not dating anyone.

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On September 21, 2008 after the suicide of writer David Foster Wallace, Wurtzel wrote an article for New York magazine about the time she had spent with him. She acknowledged that “I never knew David well.”

Facts & Trivia

Elizabeth Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Elizabeth Wurtzel celebrates birthday on July 31 of every year.

In January 2009, she wrote an article for The Guardian, arguing that the vehemence of opposition demonstrated in Europe to Israel’s actions in the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict, when compared to the international reaction to human rights abuses in the Peoples Republic of China, Darfur, and Arab countries, suggested an antisemitic undercurrent fueling the outrage.

What was Elizabeth Wurtzel addicted to?

Wurtzel, who rose to fame in 1994 chronicling her depression in “Prozac Nation” is back, this time chronicling her addiction to Ritalin , a drug we normally associate with 6-year-olds too wired to sit through an entire episode of “Arthur” on PBS.

Is Elizabeth Wurtzel still alive?

January 7, 2020

Is Prozac Nation a true story?

Prozac Nation is a memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel published in 1994. The book describes the author’s experiences with atypical depression, her own character failings and how she managed to live through particularly difficult periods while completing college and working as a writer.

How old is Elizabeth Wurtzel?

52 years (1967–2020)

Was Elizabeth Wurtzel married?

Jim Freed