Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020)
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Elizabeth Wurtzel is the bestselling author of Prozac Nation and Bitch. After graduating from Harvard College, she was the popular music critic for The New Yorker and New York magazine. Her articles have also appeared in Glamour, Mademoiselle, Mirabella, Seventeen, and the Oxford American. She visa mer lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) Elizabeth Wurtzel was the bestselling author of Prozac Nation and Bitch. After graduating from Harvard College, she was the popular music critic for The New Yorker and New York magazine. Her articles have also appeared in Glamour, Mademoiselle, Mirabella, Seventeen, and the Oxford American. She chronicled her struggle with depression and drug addiction in best-selling memoirs that helped spur a boom in confessional writing, turning her into a Gen X celebrity at 26. She struggled with breast cancer in 2015 and underwent a double mastectomy, but the breast cancer had metastasized to her brain. Elizabeth Wurtzel passed away on January 7, 2020 at the age of 52. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Wurtzel, Elizabeth Lee
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- WURTZEL, Elizabeth
WURTZEL, Elizabeth Lee - Födelsedag
- 1967-07-31
- Avled
- 2020-01-07
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- New York, New York, USA
- Dödsort
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- Harvard College (B.A.|1989)
Yale Law School (J.D.|2008) - Yrken
- novelist
journalist
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- Rolling Stone Magazine College Journalism Award (1986)
- Kort biografi
- Grew up with divorced Jewish parents in New York City. Has written two memoirs; Prozac Nation (1994) about growing up and battling depression, and More, Now, Again (2001) about her drug-addiction following.
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It's crazy how this book was written in the early 90s and it is still relevant.
I think the only reason I like this book is because I read it during a particular period in my life-- that is, when I was deep in the throes of depression, needing an understanding companion, though ultimately the book only really served to satisfy my own self-pitying.
As a person with depression, reading Prozac Nation was like being forced to take a guided tour of my younger years. Elizabeth Wurtzel holds no punches in describing her agonizing battle with her mental illness. However, her insightful, well educated mind is the second commentator in the book, constantly analyzing, pushing for answers and screaming rhetorical questions that have gone unanswered for millennia. The ensuing dialogue speeds to the end, revealing much about the title of the book.
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Experiencia personal de (bibliotecaria) ¿cuántos de nosotros tomamos Prozac durante los años 90 del siglo pasado creyendo que sería nuestra salvación contra la depresión.