The memoir sat atop best-seller lists and was made into a movie starring Christina Ricci. Posing on the cover of a magazine with a come-hither stare and a crop top, Wurtzel embodied the dark and angsty glamour of the 1990s-a literary Courtney Love or Tracey Emin.
Yet, she looked gorgeous as she lived this self-destructive life. In her memoirs, however, Wurtzel luridly described her depression: snorting coke to kick her lithium dependence, curling up on bathroom floors sweating and sobbing, and falling into bed with the wrong man at every turn.
Raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, she was the gifted daughter of a prosperous family who attended private schools and graduated from Harvard. When Elizabeth Wurtzel published Prozac Nation in 1994, she seemed all too eager to regale the public with her struggles. Two decades after her breakout memoir was published, a writer once dismissed as a narcissist died a literary heroine.
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