![]() ![]() ![]() Many obituaries have highlighted how her bestselling 1994 memoir, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, was groundbreaking as a book by a young woman that opened up a conversation about mental health.Ĭolleagues and women in media who came up during the era of Wurtzel’s peak media celebrity shared how much she meant to them. The writer’s untimely death from cancer at 52 this week immediately made news and sparked an outpouring of grief on Twitter. ![]() For all of my life I have needed more.” The sentiment was specifically about her relationship to Ritalin, but it also encapsulated the way Wurtzel’s life and work made art out of her emotions and desires and the lengths she went to to fulfill them. In her 2001 book, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction, Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote, “Then I need more. ![]()
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