Elizabeth Wurtzel: Prozac Nation author dies aged 52 – BBC News, BBC News

        

                                 Image copyright                 Getty Images                                                      Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of the best-selling memoir Prozac Nation which detailed her struggles with depression and addiction, has died agedHer husband, Jim Freed, told US media she died at a New York hospital after a long battle with cancer.

Published when she was in her s, Prozac Nation divided critics. Some praised Ms Wurtzel for her candor while others said she was self-absorbed.

She told the BBC in 2015it was a book about “growing up”.************It included details of her self-harm, drug. use and sex life, and made her an influential voice of Generation X.

The memoir has been credited with helping to spark a boom in confessional writing.

Her other books included Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women and More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction, while her essays were featured in publications including The New York Times.

In a
piece for the newspaper,Ms Wurtzel wrote about being diagnosed with breast cancerand having chemotherapy and a double mastectomy.

Following news of her death on Tuesday, tributes were paid on social media.

“It’s impossible to convey the impact Elizabeth Wurtzel had in the ‘******************************** s. She was unapologetic, raw, honest. She stood for a very specific form of GenX femininity, confession, rage, “journalist Erin Blakemore wrote.(Actress Mia Farrow described the author as” brilliant, complex , fascinating, fun and kind “.

                                                                                                                      

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