Elizabeth Wurtzel

Best known as the American writer/journalist to publish Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel often focused her work on her personal struggles involving addiction, depression, and her personal/work lives. Because of her confessional-style memoirs, she became a voice of Generation X, driving an uptick in this very personal style of writing. Wurtzel died of complications related to metastasized breast cancer at the age of 52 in 2020.

Elizabeth Wurtzel