The memoir was later adapted into a 2001 feature-length film starring Christina Ricci. She contributed pop criticism to New York Magazine and the New Yorke r prior to the 1994 publication of Prozac Nation, which led to her widely being hailed within the literary world as a publishing wunderkind. While in college, Wurtzel received an internship at the Dallas Morning News, though she was fired in 1988 following accusations of plagiarism. In 1986, Wurtzel won the Rolling Stone college journalism award for a piece she wrote about Lou Reed, which Samuels says she widely credited with kickstarting her journalism career according to Freed, the award is still on display in their apartment today. Rock and roll music shaped the way she wrote, because she listened to it all the time, and because it promised salvation.” “The music she loved is everywhere in her writing. “ Lizzie was a rock and roll writer, by which I mean that she wrote songs and whole albums that were meant to be read rather then played or sung,” says Samuels. Rock music was a huge part of Wurtzel’s life, and she wrote extensively about her love for musicians like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen most recently, she had become obsessed with the new Beck album, 2019’s Hyperspace. She painted an honest picture, warts and all.” “And Elizabeth was always the Elizabeth from her books. “She had this saying: If you’re truthful, people will love you,” her husband, Jim Freed, tells Rolling Stone. Wurtzel was an early advocate for destigmatizing mental illness, and is widely credited with ushering in the explosion of the first-person essay and memoir genre that marked the early years of the internet.Ībove all else, Wurtzel’s work was characterized by its relentless, unapologetic honesty. The memoir garnered wide acclaim for Wurtzel’s explosive, deeply confessional style, and wry, self-deprecating voice. Wurtzel first rose to prominence at the age of 26 with the memoir Prozac Nation, which documented her struggles with depression and substance abuse.
Wurtzel was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
Wurtzel’s husband Jim Freed cited the cause of death as complications from leptomeningeal disease, a condition that results from cancer spreading to the cerebrospinal fluid.
Elizabeth Wurtzel - author of the best-selling memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - died in a New York City hospital on Tuesday, according to the New York Times.
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