Prozac Nation author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies at age 52

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Elizabeth Wurtzel&comma; 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&comma; died on Tuesday at age 52&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wurtzel’s husband&comma; Jim Freed&comma; told the Associated Press that she died at a Manhattan hospital after a long battle with cancer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<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&period; Critics praised her for her candour and accused her of self-pity and self-indulgence&comma; vices she fully acknowledged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>In my case the crisis-level hysteria is an all-too-recurring theme<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Wurtzel wrote of growing up in a home torn by divorce&comma; of cutting herself when she was in her early teens&comma; and of spending her adolescence in a storm of tears&comma; drugs&comma; bad love affairs and family fights&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t mean to sound like a spoiled brat&comma;” she wrote&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I know that into every sunny life a little rain must fall and all that&comma; but in my case the crisis-level hysteria is an all-too-recurring theme&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wurtzel became a celebrity&comma; a symbol and&comma; for some&comma; a punchline&period; Newsweek called her &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the famously depressed Elizabeth Wurtzel”&period; 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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>”I just felt&comma; like&comma; everyone was overreacting&period; People were going on about it&period; That part really annoyed me&comma;” she said&comma; remarks that she later said were misrepresented&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But many readers embraced her story and would credit her with helping them face their own troubles&period; News of her death was met with expressions of grief and gratitude&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The writer Anne Theriault tweeted&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s hard for me to even articulate how important Prozac Nation was to me at a certain point in my life&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Author Sady Doyle lamented that Wurtzel was regarded as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sad Example Of Something – female memoir-writers&comma; women who got famous for being themselves&comma; young women generally&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And to see her gone so young is a harsh reminder of how cruel that was&comma;” Doyle tweeted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">People spent so many years writing about Elizabeth Wurtzel as a Sad Example Of Something &&num;8212&semi; female memoir-writers&comma; women who got famous for being themselves&comma; young women generally &&num;8212&semi; and to see her gone so young is a harsh reminder of how cruel that was&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;ADyZFpTdAX">https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;ADyZFpTdAX<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Sady Doyle &lpar;&commat;sadydoyle&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;sadydoyle&sol;status&sol;1214584693351469057&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">January 7&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wurtzel’s other books included Bitch&colon; In Praise of Difficult Women and More&comma; Now&comma; Again&colon; A Memoir of Addiction&period; Her essays were published in The New York Times&comma; New York magazine and other publications&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a 2015 piece for the Times&comma; 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