Elizabeth Wurtzel, who at 27 years old published the famous 'Prozac Nation', has died Tuesday in New York of breast cancer at age 52, as reported by the newspapers 'The New York Times' and 'The Washington Post'.
Wurtzel was diagnosed in 2015 and wrote about his experience for 'The New York Times' . She underwent a double mastectomy , but has died due to a brain metastasis , her husband, Jim Freed, reported.
Wurtzel's famous first opera in 1994 encouraged a national dialogue about depression and the drug Prozac , then new.
Franco and uninhibited, his account of his student days at Harvard, his use of drugs, his sexual adventures and his mental problems as a child also changed the way memories are written. The play made Wurtzel a celebrity.
Some critics were relentless with the book, considering the author narcissistic and obsessed with herself. "It's a Sylvia Plath with Madonna's ego," Ken Tucker wrote about Wurtzel in September 1994 in 'The New York Times Book Review.'
But not everyone agreed, and others saw beyond. "Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes funny, self-indulgent, self-aware, 'Prozac Nation' possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, Sylvia Plath's irritating emotional exhibitionism in 'The Crystal Bell' and humor Dark of a song by Bob Dylan, "Michiko Kakutani, the famous former literary critic of The New York Times, wrote the same month.
'Prozac Nation' was adapted to the big screen in 2001 , with Christina Ricci as the protagonist.
Wurtzel continued writing books and magazine articles. He published the collection of essays, 'Bitch', in 1998, and in 2002 'More, now and again: a memoir of addiction', among others.
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