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		</div><p>Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the best-selling Prozac Nation made her a voice and a target for an anxious generation, died on Tuesday at age 52.</p>
<p>Wurtzel’s husband, Jim Freed, told the Associated Press that she died at a Manhattan hospital after a long battle with cancer.</p>
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<p>Prozac Nation was published in 1994 when Wurtzel was in her mid-20s and set off a debate that lasted for much of her life. Critics praised her for her candour and accused her of self-pity and self-indulgence, vices she fully acknowledged.</p>
<blockquote><p>In my case the crisis-level hysteria is an all-too-recurring theme</p></blockquote>
<p>Wurtzel wrote of growing up in a home torn by divorce, of cutting herself when she was in her early teens, and of spending her adolescence in a storm of tears, drugs, bad love affairs and family fights.</p>
<p>“I don’t mean to sound like a spoiled brat,” she wrote. “I know that into every sunny life a little rain must fall and all that, but in my case the crisis-level hysteria is an all-too-recurring theme.”</p>
<p>Wurtzel became a celebrity, a symbol and, for some, a punchline. Newsweek called her “the famously depressed Elizabeth Wurtzel”. She was widely ridiculed after a 2002 interview with the The Toronto Globe and Mail in which she spoke dismissively of the September 11 terrorist attacks from the year before.</p>
<p>”I just felt, like, everyone was overreacting. People were going on about it. That part really annoyed me,” she said, remarks that she later said were misrepresented.</p>
<p>But many readers embraced her story and would credit her with helping them face their own troubles. News of her death was met with expressions of grief and gratitude.</p>
<p>The writer Anne Theriault tweeted: “It’s hard for me to even articulate how important Prozac Nation was to me at a certain point in my life.”</p>
<p>Author Sady Doyle lamented that Wurtzel was regarded as a “Sad Example Of Something – female memoir-writers, women who got famous for being themselves, young women generally.</p>
<p>“And to see her gone so young is a harsh reminder of how cruel that was,” Doyle tweeted.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">People spent so many years writing about Elizabeth Wurtzel as a Sad Example Of Something &#8212; female memoir-writers, women who got famous for being themselves, young women generally &#8212; and to see her gone so young is a harsh reminder of how cruel that was. <a href="https://t.co/ADyZFpTdAX">https://t.co/ADyZFpTdAX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Sady Doyle (@sadydoyle) <a href="https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1214584693351469057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Wurtzel’s other books included Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women and More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction. Her essays were published in The New York Times, New York magazine and other publications.</p>
<p>In a 2015 piece for the Times, she described her initial success in fighting her cancer diagnosis.</p>
<p>“I live in an age of miracles and wonders, when they cure cancer with viruses. If I ever meet cancer again, I will figure it out. You see, I am very Jewish, which is to say … I am undefeated by the worst,” she wrote.</p>
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<p>“But I would have preferred to skip this. That would have been much better.”</p>
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