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Elizabeth Wurtzel Bio – Elizabeth Wurtzel Wiki
Elizabeth Wurtzel, born Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel was an American author, journalist, and lawyer. She was known for publishing her best-selling memoir Prozac Nation, in 1994 at the age of 27.
Wurtzel also wrote the essay collection “Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women” and the memoir “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction.” She as well wrote “The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women,” and “Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood.”
She also wrote numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, Elle, New York magazine and other publications.
Elizabeth Wurtzel Education
Wurtzel attended the Ramaz School in New York City. She received a BA in comparative literature from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School.
Elizabeth Wurtzel Age
Wurtzel was born on July 31, 1967, in New York City, United States. She died on January 7, 2020, in New York City. She was 52 years old.
Elizabeth Wurtzel Parents
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s parents are Lynne Winters and Donald Wurtzel. They divorced when she was young. Her mother is a media consultant. In 2016, Wurtzel discovered that her biological father was photographer Bob Adelman, and that she was the product of an affair between him and her mother when they both worked for Random House in the 1960s.
Elizabeth Wurtzel Husband
Elizabeth Wurtzel was married to her husband James Freed. They met in October 2013 at an addiction-themed reading. The couple got engaged in September 2014 and married in May 2015.
Elizabeth Wurtzel Death
Elizabeth Wurtzel died on January 7, 2020, at the age of 52 at a hospital in Manhattan. Journalist Ronan Farrow paid tribute to Wurtzel on Twitter.
Farrow tweeted: “I met Lizzie in law school. She started mid-career as I was starting young. We were both misfits and she was kind and generous and filled spaces that might have otherwise been lonely with her warmth and humor and idiosyncratic voice. She gave a lot to a lot of us. I miss her.”
Lindsey Adler, a writer at The Athletic, tweeted: “Elizabeth Wurtzel single-handedly changed the way women could write about ourselves and the world around us. She was a deeply complicated person, and that’s why I admired her.” She added in another tweet, “Elizabeth Wurtzel didn’t just change the memoir game. She helped brush back the stigma of psychiatric treatment for mental health issues. Her work did important things and yet, she wasn’t always taken seriously because of those issues. She suffered for her candor. RIP.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel Cause of Death
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s cause of death was metastatic breast cancer, which had resulted from the BRCA genetic mutation. In 2015, she had a double mastectomy.
Elizabeth Wurtzel Net Worth
Elizabeth Wurtzel’s net worth was estimated to be