X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Elizabeth Wurtzel


Elizabeth Wurtzel

On September 21, 2008 after the suicide of writer David Foster Wallace, Wurtzel wrote an article for New York about time spent with him.

Despite Prozac Nations phenomenal success as an international bestseller, Wurtzel was nonetheless taken to court by her publisher Penguin in September of 2012 in an effort for the publisher to reclaim a $100,000 advance for a 2003 book contract for, "a book for teenagers to help them cope with depression" which Wurtzel failed to complete.

Hydroxyzine

In her confessional memoir Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel describes how she made a prepubescent attempt at suicide by taking an overdose of Atarax.

Prozac Nation

Prozac Nation (sub-titled Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir), an autobiography by Elizabeth Wurtzel, was published in 1994.



see also