Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City) is an American writer and journalist famous for her work in the confessional memoir genre. The Village Voice has called her "a powerful creative genius, a modern-day Plath or Anne Sexton"^[1] July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ...

Background

Brought up Jewish, Wurtzel's parents divorced when she was young. As described in Prozac Nation, Wurtzel's depression began at the age of fourteen. She attended Ramaz for high school and was described as an over-achiever by her teachers, who expected her to become a nationally famous writer. While an undergraduate at Harvard College, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and the Dallas Morning News. Wurtzel also received the 1986 Rolling Stone Magazine College Journalism Award. Following her graduation, Wurtzel moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and found work as pop music critic for The New Yorker and New York Magazine. Clinical depression (also called major depressive disorder) is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individuals social functioning and/or activities of daily living. ... The Ramaz School is a coeducational, college prepatory, private day school that adheres to Modern Orthodox Judaism. ... Harvard Yard Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, having been founded in 1636. ... The Harvard Crimson, the breakfast daily of Harvard University, was founded in 1873. ... The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published bi-weekly. ... The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (pronounced Grennich Village; also called simply the Village) is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... This article or section needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...

Prozac Nation

Wurtzel is best known for publishing her groundbreaking memoir, the best-selling Prozac Nation, at the age of 26. The book chronicles her battle with depression while being a college undergraduate and how she was eventually rescued by Prozac after multiple attempts at treatment and suicide attempts. The film adaptation of Prozac Nation, starring Christina Ricci, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival September 8, 2001 but never had a U.S. theatrical release. It was telecast on the Starz! network during March, 2005 and was released on DVD in the summer of 2005. Prozac Nation (sub-titled Young and Depressed in America : A Memoir) is an autobiography published in 1994 and written by Elizabeth Wurtzel. ... Clinical depression (also called major depressive disorder) is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individuals social functioning and/or activities of daily living. ... Background Fluoxetine hydrochloride (brand names include Prozac®, Symbyax® (compounded with olanzapine), Sarafem®, Fontex® (Sweden), Fluctine (Austria, Germany), Prodep (India), Fludac (India)) is an antidepressant drug used medically in the treatment of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and many other disorders. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated American actress. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2001. ... Starz is a US pay TV network which features mainly first-run motion pictures. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

After Prozac Nation

Following the critical acclaim and bestselling success of Prozac Nation, Wurtzel moved to Florida as she felt she was no longer able to concentrate on her work in New York City and began writing her second book, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women. It was at this point that she battled heroin abuse and addiction to cocaine and Ritalin. Wurtzel wrote Bitch as she felt that feminist writing had become "dry" and she wanted to make it "juicy" again. She focused on societal definitions of "bad girls" and analyzed female public figures from Amy Fisher to Hillary Clinton through this lens. Wurtzel, at this point a drug addict, gained much weight due to the medication she was taking and was seen in discomfort whilst promoting Bitch on numerous media channels like CNN. Multiple book readings and press interviews also had to be cancelled. During this time, her regular column in The Guardian was cancelled because of her inability to produce work on time. Heroin, also known as diamorphine (BAN) or diacetylmorphine (INN), is a semi-synthetic opioid. ... Cocaine (or crack in its impure freebase form) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... Methylphenidate (MPH) is an amphetamine-like prescription stimulant commonly used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adults. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Joey Buttafuoco. ... Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947), was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as the wife of President Bill Clinton. ... Drug addiction, or dependency is the compulsive use of drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...

It was these experiences that led to her publishing a second autobiographic volume, titled More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction (2001). This book was centered around her addiction to the prescription medication Ritalin while writing Bitch. This article is about the year 2001. ...

Wurtzel has also worked for Nerve as a film critic. As of 2005, she is studying at Yale Law School. Nerves (yellow) Nerves redirects here. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Sterling Law Building Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

Controversy

Controversy erupted over comments that Wurtzel, who lived near the World Trade Center in New York, made about the September 11, 2001 attacks, during an interview with Jan Wong about the Prozac Nation sequel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction. She was quoted in a February 16, 2002, article by Wong titled, "That's enough about me, now, what do you think of me?", for The Globe and Mail in Toronto: 1 World Trade Center redirects here. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Globe and Mail is a large English language national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada, and printed in seven cities across Canada. ...

My main thought was: What a pain in the ass... I had not the slightest emotional reaction. I thought, this is a really strange art project... It was a most amazing sight in terms of sheer elegance. It fell like water. It just slid, like a turtleneck going over someone's head... It was just beautiful. You can't tell people this. I'm talking to you because you're Canadian... I just felt like everyone was overreacting. People were going on about it. That part really annoyed me... I cried about all the animals left there in the neighbourhood... I think I have some kind of emotional block. I think I should join some support group for people who were there... You know what was really funny? After the fact, like, all these different writers were writing these things about what it was like, and nobody bothered to call me.

In some instances, those remarks were quoted out of context, not making it clear that Wurtzel lived near the WTC. In a previous interview (October, 2001), Wurtzel had stated:

I remember sitting in my apartment and when the first tower fell and the ground shook and one of my windows blew out and there was all this horrible gray and brown dust blowing into my apartment, and I was on the phone with my college roommate, who was calling from Washington basically to say, "Get out of your apartment. You just have to get out of your apartment." And I screamed really loud while I was on the phone with her and I just kept saying, "I'm going to die." And I later spoke to her and she said she's never heard me sound so afraid. And I think it was because for the first time in my life I felt like, you know, in actual danger... As of right now, all it is is one horrible, horrible day in the history of this city and this country. We don't know yet what else is gonna happen. But I do think people our age are pretty philosophical about this stuff. Maybe it's just a refusal to believe that anything terrible is going to happen. I mean, maybe that's my problem. Maybe that's what I sound like.^[2]

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)

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References

1. ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0202,press,31332,10.html
2. ^ "Analysis: Generation X may view September 11th events as a way to shape their generation"; Bob Edwards, Morning Edition (NPR), October 22, 2001

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External links

• Gerald Peary's 1998 interview with Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Quotes attributed to Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Reference to Elizabeth Wurtzel in the web comic Cat and Girl
• Sole Rock N Roll Survivor- Early work of Wurtzel in The Harvard Crimson