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	Elizabeth Wurtzel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elizabeth Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American writer.
		As of 2005, Wurtzel is currently attending Yale Law School.
		Wurtzel is most known for publishing her groundbreaking memoir, Prozac Nation, at the age of 26.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Wurtzel (285 words)

	ELIZABETH WURTZEL: 'Prozac Nation' - BETWEEN THE LINES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SHE has been compared to Sylvia Plath on more than one occasion, and when Elizabeth Wurtzel first released her debut memoirs, Prozac Nation, in 1994, she was unprepared for the flood of reaction that lapped at her feet.
		Wurtzel has the agility and pace of a nosebleed techno beat, and an appetite for nightmare and psychosis that even our most prolific fictional horror genius' would be hard pressed to match.
		Elizabeth Wurtzel is courage incarnate, and for anybody who is searching for an answer to a nation's dependency on Prozac, and its continuing battle with depression, Prozac Nation will be an emblematic torch to light their way.
	www.thei.aust.com /isite/btl/btlrvprozac.html (657 words)

	SUNY Canton - Prozac Nation Author Elizabeth Wurtzel at SUNY Canton Oct. 9
		By the time Wurtzel wrote Prozac Nation at age 26, she was already well known as a cultural critic and literary diva of The New Yorker and New York magazines.
		She recalls the binges of sex, drug use and the paralyzing spells of depression that afflicted her in high school and as a Harvard undergraduate and culminated in a suicide attempt and ultimate diagnosis of atypical depression, a severe, episodic psychological disorder.
		Criticized for its incomprehensible central line of argument, it was Wurtzel's public persona suffering from her exhaustive research and writing on a speedy Kerouacesque drug binge that, by her own admission, sent her to rehab upon the book's conclusion.
	www.canton.edu /can/can_start.taf?page=news_03fall_wurtzel (545 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Elizabeth is an interesting case because she is a very intelligent person and despite her depression she gets a place to study at Harvard and she always somehow manages to just scrape through.
		It gets to the state where Elizabeth is admitted to the psychiatric ward fulltime as she starts to contemplate suicide, in fact there is a period where she is in and out of here on a number of occasions.
		Elizabeth had to suffer for over a decade with the debilitating disease that is depression before she was offered any real help now you can just pop to the Doc’s and I reckon you or I could get some without much cause for fuss at all….
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0704380080 (2007 words)

	Reviews \| More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wurtzel has already done more than dabble in cocaine, ecstasy and even heroin, in spite of her repeated insistence she was never hooked ("I was careful with heroin.
		Wurtzel does stir up a lot of anger in people, and after reading her memoir I am curious as to what this is all about.
		Say what you will about her self-absorbed personality, Elizabeth Wurtzel has done a public service by laying bare the hideous effects of addiction, revealing it for what it really is: one of the most destructive and soul-destroying maladies in the entire human repertoire.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/http://www.nefarious-tales.com/biography/morenowagain.html (1512 words)

	Dialogues@RU - Volume Three, Spring 2004
		Although Wurtzel is a woman inscribed by the conventional, gender-assigned roles of society, she begins her autobiography resisting these roles by describing her unconventional role as a drug addict, listing each drug she had become addicted to within the time frame of the text.
		The self portrayed by Elizabeth Wurtzel is completely different from one moment to the next, which challenges the conventional notion that autobiographies present the audience with a singular self.
		Wurtzel is called to portray the identities of writer, daughter, friend-roles that overwhelmed her to the point that she felt as though she needed to find an escape from them.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~dialogs/vol_03/essays/s_pacella (1098 words)

	CNN.com - Elizabeth Wurtzel discusses 'More, Now, Again' - January 17, 2002
		But Wurtzel has struggled with depression (the topic of "Prozac Nation") and, in coping with her high-flying life, found herself addicted to several other drugs, from cocaine to Ritalin.
		WURTZEL: Right, [and] at the time, and even now, I thought well, wow, I must be the only person who has thought of this, but it turned out as I found out later that this is very commonly done by college students and high school...
		WURTZEL: It really is. I think because I thought it was safe, I thought well, if I take two pills when I'm supposed to take one, that's not so bad.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/01/17/wurtzel.cnna (736 words)

	Wurtzel's latest offering fails to elicit sympathy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hating writer Elizabeth Wurtzel is an occupational hazard for a disturbingly large number of baby-boom journalists.
		Wurtzel's depression and man troubles have not prevented her from displaying her luscious body and succulent lips to ample advantage.
		But perhaps Wurtzel might have benefited as a young person from more time spent slinging hash or cleaning toilets with ordinary people who aren't as dumb as she assumes, and less time spent reflecting on how very, very bright and very, very sexy she is.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2002/2002-01-24-more-now-again.htm (809 words)

	Wurtzel, Elizabeth: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Prozac Nation is Wurtzel's memoir of her depression, which she traces from the age of 11 to her senior year in college in chapters marking different phases or manifestations of her illness.
		The book situates her illness squarely within her family dynamics where she found herself the "battlefield on which [her] parents' differences were fought," and describes in excruciating detail her inner life that at any given time was marked with a "free-flowing messy id" to nihilism, numbness, rage, and fear, ultimately leading to a suicide attempt.
		The final chapters provide intriguing, knotty questions about psychopharmacology as Wurtzel on one hand characterizes Prozac as a national joke, trendy, a silly drug for crybabies, cosmetic pharmacology for the U.S., which is in "one big collective bad mood"; and on the other, as a drug that literally saves lives.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/wurtzel11967-des-.html (316 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Elizabeth Wurtzel's first book, Prozac Nation, published in 1994, generated considerable interest and earned for its author a certain notoriety.
		...Wurtzel, a pretty girl then in her mid-twenties, wrote in a flamboyant yet oddly engaging way about the experience of growing up in New York between divorced and warring parents and undergoing a severe form of depression that began in childhood and lasted for more than a decade...
		...All the critics made the same point: although Wurtzel claimed that her story was in some way symptomatic of the situation of young people in general, and especially of girls, in reality hers was nothing but (in the words of one of her critics) a "self-obsessed case study...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V106I1P72-1.htm (1305 words)

	Alibris: Elizabeth Wurtzel
		Wurtzel's struggle began at age 12 when she began cutting her legs in the school bathroom.
		Drawing on a seemingly endless number of examples from throughout history, Elizabeth Wurtzel strives to connect the struggles of contemporary forthright women with their counterparts from the past.
		Wurtzel combines humor and sarcasm with solid research as she examines such women as Delilah, Nicole Simpson, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Wurtzel,Elizabeth (403 words)

	Out of focus - [Sunday Herald]
		This may be true -- we read accounts like Wurtzel's to understand these things better -- and I'm ready to accept that the self-centred, self-righteous paranoiac she describes with affecting honesty is what happens to good people turned bad; that cleaned-up Wurtzel will show some of the consideration that was evidently lacking before.
		As we walk, Wurtzel tells me how she was evacuated from her last apartment, which was near the World Trade Centre, on September 11, how she had no time to take anything, almost lost Zap in the process (he was stuck there for two days), and came close to losing her mind.
		As it happens, Brenda's friend let him, but this was not how it was told to Wurtzel, and for some reason she began to scream and cry hysterically, in the kind of response that is completely disproportionate to the scale of things.
	www.sundayherald.com /22251 (2876 words)

	Elizabeth Wurtzel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of "Prozac Nation" and "Bitch," was born on July 31, 1967, in the middle of the Summer of Love.
		Elizabeth wrote a memoir of her struggles with depression, "Prozac Nation," and a book that describes the history of manipulative female behavior, "Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women." She has written articles and for various newspapers and magazines.
		Elizabeth Wurtzel's “Prozac Nation” as well as “More, Now, Again” are two of my favorite books...her writing is brilliant, and her ideas are deliverence.
	www.recoveryourlife.com /Creative_Corner/Biographies/Famous_Biographies/75.aspx (1578 words)

	the MetOnline, a student run online version of the Metropolitan newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wurtzel said she was happy to be at Auraria in honor of Women's History Month instead of Depression Awareness Day or a suicide prevention convention.
		Wurtzel asked the audience its opinion on the Martha Stewart case, in which Stewart was found guilty on all charges.
		Wurtzel said the absence of emotional women may be the show's way of telling the female audience it's not attractive to be a drama queen.
	www.mscd.edu /~themet/TheMetropolitan/03_04/Vol26_issue30/f2.html (782 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Elizabeth Wurtzel
		Wurtzel's svelte, naked babehood (with nipple Photoshopped out), the manicured hand that lazily flips the reader off and the bored sneer on her delicate face have won this book the distinction of a waiting list at the Metro office.
		Wurtzel aptly notes that feminism has failed us, or at least got us stuck between an ideological rock and a desirable hard place, but this book's frustrated rants, uncertain message and simpering conclusion don't help to point the way free.
		ODDER STILL is the way Wurtzel, as if dipping into one of her exhaustively chronicled fl moods, occasionally fires withering criticism at her subjects for no good reason.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.25.98/lit-wurtzel-9825.html (518 words)

	DVD Review: Prozac Nation
		Wurtzel writes a review of a local concert and it is received favorably by Rolling Stone magazine.
		Wurtzel's behavior in the film is so reprehensible that it becomes impossible to like her, or find sympathy for her.
		Prozac Nation is a difficult film to watch and Elizabeth Wurtzel, at least as she is portrayed in the film, is an even more difficult character to like.
	www.dvddude.net /a_to_z/reviews/prozacnation.php (1143 words)

	Amazon.com: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America : A Memoir: Books: Elizabeth Wurtzel,Riverhead Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Twenty-six-year-old Wurtzel, a former critic of popular music for New York and the New Yorker, recounts in this luridly intimate memoir the 10 years of chronic, debilitating depression that preceded her treatment with Prozac in 1990.
		The title is misleading, for Wurtzel skimps on sociological analysis and remains too self-involved to justify her contention that depression is endemic to her generation.
		Wurtzel is not unhappy because her parents are divorcing, or because she was forced to go summer after summer to camps she hated, or because she disliked her afterschool program, or because high school was difficult for her academically (it wasn't).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573225126?v=glance (2295 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Elizabeth Wurtzel went shopping...
		After the success of Prozac Nation, which appeared in 1994, Wurtzel received a $500,000 advance for Bitch, which was billed as a post-feminist defence of difficult women, women such as Amy Fisher, Monica Lewinsky and, er, Elizabeth Wurtzel.
		During the period in which she was supposed to be writing it, Wurtzel first became addicted to Ritalin, then to cocaine and, finally, to pornography.
		Her narcissism is so deep-seated she believes that because it's she, Elizabeth Wurtzel, doing these things, they can't help but be fascinating to the general reader.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/biography/0,6121,660781,00.html (797 words)

	CNN - Elizabeth Wurtzel's 'Bitch' - April 22, 1998
		From Delilah to Madonna, from Anne Sexton to Courtney Love, Wurtzel argues difficult women should be applauded, not chastized, for being courageous enough to swing a powerful personality.
		It features Wurtzel sitting backwards in a chair, topless, the "I" in the title "Bitch" covered by her protruding middle finger.
		Wurtzel's reflection of this theory is garnering reviews that stretch across the board.
	www.cnn.com /books/news/9804/22/bitch.wurtzel (492 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Writer Profile :: ELIZABETH L. WURTZEL
		ELIZABETH L. ABOUT this time of year, I'd really like to slam my door shut, hang out my "Do Not Disturb" sign and just hide, because there are so many things that I am so incredibly sick of.
		ELIZABETH L. ONCE UPON A time, Bennington College was known as the most expensive school in the country, the rural refuge for rich flakes.
		ELIZABETH L. Smooth Talk Directed by Joyce Chopra At the USA Copley Place A FRIEND DESCRIBED Smooth Talk as the story of a 15-year-old girl in the first flush of her sexuality, which seemed like a compelling enough reason to see it--having been there myself.
	www.thecrimson.com /writer.aspx?ID=2003 (816 words)

	Middle-class speed freak - Life & Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the early 1990s, Wurtzel helped put a name and a face on a horrible, ugly disease when her first book Prozac Nation brought popular attention to depression in a candid and accessible fashion.
		Wurtzel began to find out just how much fun Ritalin was when it was prescribed to her to augment her anti-depressant medications.
		Wurtzel says her book provides a unique look at "how disgusting it can be while you're still living a middle-class life.
	media.www.ucdadvocate.com /media/storage/paper538/news/2002/03/06/LifeArts/MiddleClass.Speed.Freak-205305.shtml?sourcedomain=www.ucdadvocate.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com (721 words)

	Review: Elizabeth Wurtzel Celebrates the "B" Word
		Whether or not such lofty comparisons are truly merited, Wurtzel does represent a rare commentator who takes the so-called Generation X seriously, exhibiting both intelligence and a wicked wit in her writing.
		Wurtzel remains unique as a Gen X cultural critic because she is also (a.) a woman; (b.) nearly as savvy with high art and Biblical history as she is with contemporary pop culture; and (c.) chronologically "one of us," a commentator hardly into her 30's.
		Wurtzel lingers, perhaps too long, on her study of Delilah early in the book, and again on Amy Fisher in ensuing chapters.
	www.womenwriters.net /bookreviews/kleined2.htm (1123 words)

	Salon Books \| Bitch
		Wurtzel confessed in Newsweek that she had a drug problem during the time that she was writing the book, and the speed clearly drives the text.
		While supposedly celebrating women who call their own shots, to whatever effect, Wurtzel moans that the fate of a woman is to be at the mercy of the big bad man's world and her own biological clock.
		I'm confident that Wurtzel has a great book in her, but she needs a forceful editor and all her wits about her to pull it off.
	archive.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/04/20sneaks.html (623 words)

	Prozac Nation ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
		Wurtzel with all manner of accolades and compare her to everyone from Sylvia Plath and J. Salinger to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
		Yours truly has battled severe depression for most of her adult life, and I have to tell you that this book is quite an accurate portrayal of the disease and its effects on the psyche of the sufferer - not to mention the friends and co-dependents of the sufferer.
		Wurtzel's battle with the disease; her suicide attempts and hospitalizations, and eventual stabilization courtesy of the then wonder drug, Prozac.
	www.gothicrevue.com /prozacnation.html (441 words)

	More by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1860499899, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Wurtzel writes with wit and insight, and this book is full of piercing one-liners while never losing thread of the story she's telling.
		Like the best biographies Miss Wurtzel is not afraid to portray herself in a very true, unpleasent light - selfish, self-absorbed, vain - a lot of on-line reviews have chided her for this but they're missing the point.
		Elizabeth Wurtzel no longer is seen as a teen in this book, but a grown woman with adult problems.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/1860499899 (882 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Elizabeth Wurtzel
		Wurtzel's svelte, naked babehood (with nipple Photo-shopped out), the manicured hand that lazily flips the reader off, and the bored sneer on her delicate face have won this book unusually widespread attention.
		Wurtzel says that feminism has failed us, or at least got us stuck between an ideological rock and a desirable hard place, but this book's frustrated rants, uncertain message, and simpering conclusion don't help to point the way free.
		If Wurtzel's logic suffers unnerving mood swings, her brilliant but manic writing should be committed.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/06.18.98/wurtzel-9824.html (553 words)

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