Elizabeth Wurtzel spent decades trying to understand why nobody in her family was much like her.

America's maiden of the memoir Elizabeth Wurtzel on the book that named a generation

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 Tuesday at age 52.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, the author of the acclaimed memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, has died at the age of 52 following a long battle with breast cancer.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel was 27 when she published Prozac Nation, the genre-defining memoir that she now describes as "a joke that started the whole world crying."

The author of 'Prozac Nation,' who popularized confessional-style memoirs and was a face of Gen-X, has died at the age of 52, according to multiple reports.

“She had a tiny nuclear reactor where the rest of us have a breastbone.”

The fearless, relentlessly honest author of Prozac Nation has passed away – we unpack her tumultuous life and inimitable legacy with her own writing

Jia Tolentino writes about the memoirist and “Prozac Nation” author Elizabeth Wurtzel, who has died, at the age of fifty-two.

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