Profile of Elizabeth Wurtzel on Famous Like Me

Elizabeth Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American feminist writer.

Life

Brought up as an Orthodox Jew, she attended Ramaz for high school. While an undergraduate at Harvard College, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and received the 1986 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award. She has battled an addiction to prescription medicine: she is noted for living very close to the World Trade Center yet sleeping through the 9/11 attacks because of a drug-induced stupor. As of 2005, Wurtzel is currently attending Yale Law School. In 2001, a film version of Prozac Nation, starring Christina Ricci, was made.

Works

Wurtzel is most known for publishing her groundbreaking memoir, Prozac Nation, at the age of twenty-six, which chronicles her battle with depression while a college undergraduate. Her second book, Bitch, was published because, as she put it, feminist writing had become dry and she wanted to make it juicy again. She focused on what was praiseworthy about "bad girls" such as Amy Fisher. She also published a second autobiographic volume with the title More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction (2001), which centered around drug addiction. She has also written for The New Yorker and New York Magazine.

Bibliography

• Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir (1994)
• Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (1999)
• The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women (2001) (previously published as Radical Sanity)
• More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction (2001)

External link

• Gerald Peary's 1998 interview with Elizabeth Wurtzel

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