Elizabeth Wurtzel, the acclaimed author who sparked a surge of memoir writing with her book Prozac Nation, died on Tuesday at the age of 52. Writer David Samuels, Wurtzel’s longtime childhood friend, ...

Elizabeth Wurtzel, the best-selling author of several books including the 1994 memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, has died. She was 52. The author was known for opening up about her ...

Elizabeth Wurtzel, who chronicled her struggles with depression and drug addiction in best-selling memoirs that helped spur a boom in confessional writing, turning her into a Gen X touchstone at 27 ...

Mental illness can, at times, be downright ugly. That's true of depression, and it's definitely true of actress Christina Ricci's portrayal of the disorder in the movie, Prozac Nation. Based on the ...

The possibility that a group of widely prescribed antidepressants, including Prozac and Paxil, might trigger suicide and other violence in a small percentage of users has been the subject of isolated ...

The author popularized confessional-style memoirs and was a face of Gen X Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first joined PEOPLE in 2016. Elizabeth Wurtzel — the ...

Elizabeth Wurtzel — author of the best-selling memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America — died in a New York City hospital on Tuesday, according to the New York Times. She was 52 years old ...

Elizabeth Wurtzel, the writer best known for her best-selling 1994 memoir “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America,” has died at a hospital in Manhattan after a long battle with cancer, her ...