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Elizabeth Wurtzel
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July 31, 1967
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| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
New York, New York, The United States |
| genre |
Nonfiction
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| influences |
Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen |
about this author
Brought up Jewish, Wurtzel's parents divorced when she was young. As described in Prozac Nation, Wurtzel's depression began at the ages of ten to twelve. She attended Ramaz for high school and was described as an over-achiever by her teachers, who expected her to become a nationally famous writer. While an undergraduate at Harvard College, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and the Dallas Morning News. Wurtzel also received the 1986 Rolling Stone Magazine College Journalism Award. Following her graduation, Wurtzel moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and found work as pop music critic for The New Yorker and New York Magazine.
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