:Elizabeth Wurtzel

Wurtzel grew up in a Jewish family on the Upper West Side of New York City and attended the Ramaz School.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Story?id=2972554 |title=From Prozac Nation to Yale Law School? Elizabeth Wurtzel's Unlikely Journey |website=ABC News |date=March 22, 2007 |access-date=July 8, 2010}} Her parents, Lynne Winters and Donald Wurtzel, divorced when she was young, and Wurtzel was primarily raised by her mother, who worked in publishing and as a media consultant.{{cite web|url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-discovering-the-truth-about-her-parents.html|title=Neither of My Parents Was Exactly Who I Thought They Were|first=Elizabeth|last=Wurtzel|date=December 26, 2018|website=The Cut}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/21/classified/paid-notice-deaths-zicht-rhoda.html|title=Paid Notice: Deaths Zicht, Rhoda|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 21, 1999}}{{cite news |first=Bob|last=Morris|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/style/elizabeth-wurtzel-finds-someone-to-love-her.html |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel Finds Someone to Love Her |date=May 31, 2015 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2020-01-10 |url-access=subscription}} In a 2018 article in The Cut, Wurtzel wrote that she discovered in 2016 that her biological father was photographer Bob Adelman, who had worked with her mother in the 1960s.

As described in her memoir Prozac Nation, Wurtzel's depression began between the ages of 10 and 12. Wurtzel admitted to cutting herself when she was in adolescence, and of spending her teenage years in an environment of emotional angst, substance misuse, bad relationships, and frequent fights with family members.{{cite news |author=Staff Writer |url=https://apnews.com/3bc202902e8baa8b479d39acbee38102 |title='Prozac Nation' author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies at age 52 |work=Associated Press |date=January 8, 2020 |access-date=January 8, 2020 }} A gifted student with family wealth, Wurtzel went on to attend Harvard College, where she continued to struggle with depression and substance abuse.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/author-of-prozac-nation-elizabeth-wurtzel-is-dead-at-52-934452/ |last=Dickson |first=EJ |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel, Author of 'Prozac Nation', Dead at 52|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108160501/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/author-of-prozac-nation-elizabeth-wurtzel-is-dead-at-52-934452/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=January 7, 2020 |archive-date=2020-01-08 |access-date=2020-01-10 |url-status=live }}

While an undergraduate at Harvard in the late 1980s, Wurtzel wrote for The Harvard Crimson and received the 1986 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award for a piece about Lou Reed.{{cite web |url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4370.Elizabeth_Wurtzel |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel (author of Prozac Nation) |website=Goodreads.com |access-date=July 8, 2010}}{{cite web |url=https://observer.com/2008/11/for-better-or-for-wurtzel-author-and-lawyer-elizabeth-sanguine-about-failing-the-bar-exam/ |title=For Better or for Wurtzel, Author and Lawyer Elizabeth Sanguine About Failing the Bar Exam |website=The New York Observer |date=November 18, 2008 |access-date=July 8, 2010}} She also interned at The Dallas Morning News, but was fired after being accused of plagiarism.{{cite web |url=http://observer.com/2006/03/the-liars-club-an-incomplete-history-of-untruths-and-consequences/ |title=The Liars' Club: An Incomplete History of Untruths and Consequences |website=The New York Observer |date=March 6, 2006 |access-date=August 10, 2012}} She received a B.A. degree in comparative literature from Harvard in 1989.

Wurtzel subsequently moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and found work as a pop music critic for The New Yorker and New York Magazine. The New York Times book critic Ken Tucker characterized her contributions to the former publication as "unintentionally hilarious."{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/25/books/rambunctious-with-tears.html |title=Rambunctious With Tears |first=Ken |last=Tucker |date=September 25, 1994 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=June 12, 2017}} In 1997 Dwight Garner wrote in Salon.com that her column "was so roundly despised that I sometimes felt like its only friend in the world."{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/1997/06/26/tina970625/ |title=Tina's Time |first=Dwight |last=Garner |website=Salon |date=June 26, 1997 |access-date=June 12, 2017}}

Wurtzel was best known for her best-selling memoir Prozac Nation (1994), published when she was 27. The book chronicles her battle with depression as a college undergraduate and her eventual treatment with the medication Prozac. Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times, "Wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware, Prozac Nation possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song." The paperback was a New York Times bestseller. The film adaptation, which starred Christina Ricci, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2001.{{cite web |url=http://hbcprotocols.com/wurtzel.html |title=Hypericum Buyers Club |website=HBC protocols.com |access-date=July 8, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125084204/http://hbcprotocols.com/wurtzel.html |archive-date=November 25, 2010 }}

Wurtzel's next book was titled Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (1998). In The New York Times, Karen Lehrman wrote that while Bitch "is full of enormous contradictions, bizarre digressions and illogical outbursts, it is also one of the more honest, insightful and witty books on the subject of women to have come along in a while."{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/04/19/reviews/980419.19lehrmat.html |title=I Am Woman, Hear Me Whine |date=April 19, 1998 |first=Karen |last=Lehrman|newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=June 12, 2017}}

More, Now, Again (2001), was the follow-up memoir to Prozac Nation and centered primarily on her addictions to cocaine and Ritalin. The book discusses her drug induced obsession with tweezing as a form of self-harm, and recounts her behavior while writing Bitch, among other subjects. It received generally negative reviews. For Salon, Peter Kurth wrote that Wurtzel "imagines that every word she utters and every thought that pops into her head is fraught with meaning and portent. And still her new book goes nowhere." He called the book "dysfunctional," characterized the author as an "overage adolescent," and concluded, "Sorry, Elizabeth. Wake up dead next time and you might have a book on your hands."{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2002/01/23/wurtzel_4/ |title="More, Now, Again" by Elizabeth Wurtzel |first=Peter |last=Kurth |website=Salon |date=January 23, 2002 |access-date=June 12, 2017}}

In The Guardian, Toby Young wrote that "Wurtzel's overweening self-regard oozes from every sentence" and concluded, "In a sense, More, Now, Again is the reductio ad absurdum of this whole self-obsessed genre: it's a confessional memoir by someone who has nothing to confess. Wurtzel has nothing to declare apart from her self-adoration. A better title for it would be Me, Myself, I."{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/mar/03/biography.features2 |first=Toby |last=Young |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel went shopping... |date=March 3, 2002 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=June 12, 2017}}

"[W]hat a messy load it is," wrote Pace University professor Judith Schlesinger in The Baltimore Sun. Schlesinger wrote that Wurtzel focused on "her contempt for other people—including her readers, who are expected to wade through her sloppy story, buy her shallow rationalizations, and tolerate her incessant tone of self-congratulation and entitlement."{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2001-12-30-0112300327-story.html|title=Wurtzel's 'More' -- limitless self-indulgence|first=Judith|last=Schlesinger|website=baltimoresun.com|date=December 30, 2001 |access-date=April 27, 2020}}

In 2004, Wurtzel applied to Yale Law School. She later wrote that she never intended to pursue a career as a lawyer, but rather had simply wanted to attend law school.{{cite magazine |first=Elizabeth |last=Wurtzel |url=https://nymag.com/thecut/2013/01/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-self-help.html |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel Confronts Her One-Night Stand of a Life |magazine=New York |date=January 6, 2013}} She was accepted at Yale even though "Her combined LSAT score of 160 was, as she put it, 'adequately bad' ... 'Suffice it to say I was admitted for other reasons,' Wurtzel said. 'My books, my accomplishments.'"{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/fashion/28wurtzel.html |title=Coming Soon: 'Law School Nation'? |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 28, 2007 |access-date=October 28, 2010 |first=Thomas| last=Vinciguerra}} She was a summer associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/x4Fp5JvG2I8 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20181019005510/https://www.youtube.com/watch?disable_polymer=true&bpctr=9999999999&has_verified=1&gl=US&hl=en&v=x4Fp5JvG2I8 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Fp5JvG2I8|title=Elizabeth Wurtzel on Working at Boies Schiller|last=Bloomberg Law|date=June 10, 2015|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} She received her J.D. in 2008, but failed the New York state bar exam on her first attempt.

The legal community criticized Wurtzel for holding herself out as a lawyer in interviews, because she was not licensed to practice law in any jurisdiction at the time.{{cite web |url=http://abovethelaw.com/2009/07/elizabeth_wurtzel_not_a_lawyer.php |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel: Can She Call Herself a 'Lawyer' Without Having Passed the Bar? |website=Abovethelaw.com |date=July 27, 2009 |access-date=July 8, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090730013747/http://abovethelaw.com/2009/07/elizabeth_wurtzel_not_a_lawyer.php |archive-date=July 30, 2009 }} Wurtzel passed the February 2010 New York State bar exam,{{cite web |url=http://www.nybarexam.org/ExamResults210/WZ210.html |title=Passing February 2010 (W-Z) |website=The New York State Board of Law Examiners |access-date=July 8, 2010}} and was employed full-time at Boies, Schiller & Flexner in New York City from 2008 to 2012.{{cite web |url=https://abovethelaw.com/2012/08/elizabeth-wurtzel-bids-bye-bye-to-boies-schiller/ |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel Bids Bye-Bye to Boies Schiller |website=Abovethelaw.com |date=August 6, 2012 |access-date=April 18, 2017}} She continued to work for the firm as a case manager and on special projects.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-13/the-author-of-prozac-nation-hasn-t-stopped-working-for-superlawyer-david-boies|title=The Author of 'Prozac Nation' Hasn't Stopped Working for Superlawyer David Boies|website=Bloomberg|date=May 13, 2015 }} In July 2010, she wrote in the Brennan Center for Justice blog to make a proposal for the abolition of bar exams.{{cite news |url=http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/testing_testing_what_exactly_does_the_bar_exam_test |title=Testing, Testing... What Exactly Does the Bar Exam Test |website=Brennan Law Center |date=July 1, 2010 |access-date=July 1, 2010 |first=Elizabeth |last=Wurtzel |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710054054/http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/testing_testing_what_exactly_does_the_bar_exam_test |archive-date=July 10, 2010 }}{{cite web|work=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-LB-31154|title=Wurtzel on the Bar Exam: 'The First Thing That Has To Go'|author=Jones, Ashby|date=July 12, 2010}}

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While an intern at the Dallas Morning News, Wurtzel was fired, reportedly for plagiarism, although a 2002 The New York Times interview suggested that she had fabricated quotations in an article that was never published.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/nyregion/public-lives-depression-princess-tells-about-life-of-addiction.html |title=Public Lives: 'Depression Princess' Tells About Life of Addiction |first=Joyce |last=Wadler |date=January 17, 2002 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=June 12, 2017}}

Wurtzel wrote regularly for The Wall Street Journal.{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123923304833103031 |title=Twelve Years Down the Drain |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=April 9, 2009 |access-date=July 8, 2010 |first=Elizabeth |last=Wurtzel}}

On September 21, 2008, after the suicide of writer David Foster Wallace, Wurtzel wrote an article for New York magazine about the time she had spent with him. She acknowledged that "I never knew David well."{{Cite news |last=Wurtzel |first=Elizabeth |title=Beyond the Trouble, More Trouble: Depression in the best of us |newspaper=New York |date=September 21, 2008 |url=https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/50515/}}

In January 2009, she wrote an article for The Guardian,{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jan/16/elizabeth-wurtzel-antisemitism-israel-gaza |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |title=Standing against a tide of hatred |date=January 16, 2009 |access-date=May 1, 2010 |first=Elizabeth |last=Wurtzel}} arguing that the vehemence of opposition demonstrated in Europe to Israel's actions in the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict, when compared to the international reaction to human rights abuses in the People's Republic of China, Darfur, and Arab countries, suggested an antisemitic undercurrent fueling the outrage.

In 2009, Wurtzel published an article in Elle magazine about societal pressures related to aging. Regretting her youth of casual sex and drug-taking, and realizing that she was not as beautiful as she once had been, she reflected that "whoever said youth is wasted on the young actually got it wrong; it's more that maturity is wasted on the old."{{cite magazine |url=http://www.elle.com/life-love/sex-relationships/advice/a10010/failure-to-launch-when-beauty-fades-323090/ |title=Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades |magazine=Elle |date=May 5, 2009 |access-date=February 9, 2011 |first=Elizabeth |last=Wurtzel}}

Wurtzel's publisher, Penguin, sued her in September 2012 in an effort to reclaim a $100,000 advance for a 2003 book contract for "a book for teenagers to help them cope with depression" that Wurtzel failed to complete. Of the $100,000, Penguin advanced Wurtzel $33,000 and sought interest of $7,500, claiming to have suffered detriment at Wurtzel's expense.{{cite news |last=Flood |first=Alison |title=Penguin sues authors over 'failing to deliver books' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/sep/27/penguin-sues-authors-elizabeth-wurtzel |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London, UK |access-date=February 14, 2013 |date=September 27, 2012}} The case was dismissed with prejudice in 2013.{{cite web | url = https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=2JqshHW3RLVvfXANe92FyA==&system=prod | title = Penguin Group, Inc v. Wurtzel, Elizabeth - Motion to dismiss | date = September 3, 2013 | access-date = January 8, 2020 | publisher = New York State Supreme Court }}

In early 2013, Wurtzel published a New York magazine article lamenting the unconventional choices she had made in life, including heroin use and spending much of a lucrative publisher advance on a costly Birkin bag, and her failure to marry, have children, buy a house, save money or invest for retirement. "At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24," she wrote. The article was widely criticized. In Slate, Amanda Marcotte called the piece Wurtzel's "latest word dump" and remarked that it was "as lengthy as it is incoherent."{{cite web |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/01/07/elizabeth_wurtzel_in_new_york_magazine_confessional_writing_hits_bottom.html |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel Writes About Herself Again. Memoir Finally Hits Bottom. |first=Amanda |last=Marcotte |date=January 7, 2013 |website=Slate |access-date=June 12, 2017}}

Writing in The New Republic, Noreen Malone said of the piece that "Wurtzel wants us to know that she's a mess, and kindly invites us to rubberneck."{{cite magazine |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/111690/elizabeth-wurtzel-doesnt-reveal-enough-about-herself-no-really |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel Doesn't Reveal Enough About Herself (No, Really!) |first=Noreen |last=Malone |date=January 7, 2013 |magazine=The New Republic |access-date=June 12, 2017}} Prachi Gupta for Salon characterized the essay as "rambling" and "self-involved."{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/08/07/elizabeth_wurtzel_is_writing_another_confessional_memoir/ |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel is writing another confessional memoir |first=Prachi |last=Gupta |date=August 8, 2013 |website=Salon |access-date=June 12, 2017}} In The New Yorker, Meghan Daum called the piece "self-aggrandizing, disjointed, and, in its most egregious moments, leaves the impression that her editors might have been egging her on—or worse, taking advantage of what sometimes looks like a fairly precarious psychological state—in order to ensure maximum blogospheric outrage."{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-would-hannah-horvath-make-of-elizabeth-wurtzel |title=What Would Hannah Horvath Make of Elizabeth Wurtzel? |date=January 11, 2013 |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=June 12, 2017}} By contrast, in The New Yorker Jia Tolentino called the piece "one of the best things she ever wrote."{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-chaotic-beautiful-larks-of-elizabeth-wurtzel|title=The Chaotic, Beautiful Larks of Elizabeth Wurtzel|first=Jia|last=Tolentino|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=April 27, 2020}}

In January 2015, Wurtzel published a short book titled Creatocracy under Thought Catalog's publishing imprint, TC Books. It is based on the thesis she wrote about intellectual property law upon graduation from Yale Law school.{{cite web |url=http://thought.is/site/assets/files/1272/chris_lavergne_and_mink_choi_reflect_on_thought_catalog_books_the_past_and_the_future_2minutes.pdf |title=Chris Lavergne and Mink Choi reflect on Thought Catalog books |work=thought.is |access-date=November 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141127092137/http://thought.is/site/assets/files/1272/chris_lavergne_and_mink_choi_reflect_on_thought_catalog_books_the_past_and_the_future_2minutes.pdf |archive-date=November 27, 2014 |url-status=dead }}

Wurtzel met photo editor and aspiring novelist James Freed Jr. in October 2013 at an addiction-themed reading.{{cite web|url=https://www.theawl.com/2013/10/whats-wrong-with-addiction-literature/|title=What's Wrong With Addiction Literature?|website=The Awl}} They became engaged in September 2014 and married in May 2015, while she was undergoing therapy.{{Cite web |last=Sicha |first=Choire |date=2022-10-24 |title=The Last Traces of Elizabeth Wurtzel |url=https://www.curbed.com/2022/10/elizabeth-wurtzel-auction.html |access-date=2022-10-28 |website=Curbed |language=en-us}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/opinion/sunday/elizabeth-wurtzel-why-i-will-be-wed.html |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel: Why I Will Be Wed |first=Elizabeth |last=Wurtzel |date=September 20, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=June 12, 2017}} The couple later separated, but remained close. They completed their divorce papers, but never filed them; they were still married when she died.{{Cite web |last=Wurtzel |first=Elizabeth |date=2020-01-11 |title='I Believe in Love': Elizabeth Wurtzel's Final Year, In Her Own Words |url=https://gen.medium.com/i-believe-in-love-elizabeth-wurtzel-s-final-year-in-her-own-words-e34320e41ee0 |access-date=2022-10-28 |website=GEN |language=en}}

In February 2015, Wurtzel announced she had breast cancer, "which like many things that happen to women is mostly a pain in the ass. But compared with being 26 and crazy and waiting for some guy to call, it's not so bad. If I can handle 39 breakups in 21 days, I can get through cancer." She said of her double mastectomy and reconstruction, "It is quite amazing. They do both at the same time. You go in with breast cancer and come out with stripper boobs."{{cite web |first=Elizabeth|last=Wurtzel|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/and-now-this-678/ |title=And Now This: Author Elizabeth Wurtzel Reckons with Breast Cancer |date=February 5, 2015 |magazine=Vice |access-date=June 12, 2017}}

Wurtzel died in Manhattan from leptomeningeal disease as a complication of metastasized breast cancer on January 7, 2020, at age 52.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html|title=Elizabeth Wurtzel, 'Prozac Nation' Author, Is Dead at 52|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Neil|last= Genzlinger|date=January 7, 2020|access-date=January 7, 2020}}

Her personal effects were sold at auction two years later.

• Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir (1994), {{isbn|0704302489}}
• Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (1998), {{isbn|0704381079}}
• More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction (2001), {{isbn|0743226003}}
• The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women (2004) (previously published as Radical Sanity and The Bitch Rules), {{isbn|0307417387}}
• Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood (2015), {{isbn|1576877701}}

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