![]() She painted an honest picture, warts and all.” “And Elizabeth was always the Elizabeth from her books. “She had this saying: If you’re truthful, people will love you,” her husband, Jim Freed, tells Rolling Stone. Wurtzel was an early advocate for destigmatizing mental illness, and is widely credited with ushering in the explosion of the first-person essay and memoir genre that marked the early years of the internet.Ībove all else, Wurtzel’s work was characterized by its relentless, unapologetic honesty. ![]() The memoir garnered wide acclaim for Wurtzel’s explosive, deeply confessional style, and wry, self-deprecating voice. Wurtzel first rose to prominence at the age of 26 with the memoir Prozac Nation, which documented her struggles with depression and substance abuse. ![]() Wurtzel was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. ![]() Wurtzel’s husband Jim Freed cited the cause of death as complications from leptomeningeal disease, a condition that results from cancer spreading to the cerebrospinal fluid. Elizabeth Wurtzel - author of the best-selling memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - died in a New York City hospital on Tuesday, according to the New York Times. ![]()
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