Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City , New York ; † January 7, 2020 there ) was an American author , journalist and lawyer .
Life
Wurtzel grew up in a Jewish family in New York City. Wurtzel's parents divorced when Elizabeth was relatively young. She attended the Jewish Orthodox Ramaz School on the Upper East Side of New York. While studying at Harvard College , she wrote for the student newspaper The Harvard Crimson and the daily newspaper The Dallas Morning News . In 1986 she won the Rolling Stone College Journalism Award for an article about rock singer Lou Reed . After graduating from Harvard, Wurtzel moved back to Greenwich Village, New York, and worked as a music critic for The New Yorker and New York Magazine . She later attended Yale Law School , where she graduated in 2008. Most recently she worked as a lawyer and freelance journalist. On January 7, 2020, Wurtzel died in Manhattan of complications from breast cancer at the age of 52 .
Damn beautiful world
Wurtzel's best-known work is her autobiography Damned Beautiful World ( Prozac Nation ), which she published at the age of 26. The book is about Wurtzel's depression from ages 10 to 12 and later during her time at Harvard, as well as treatment with Prozac . The story was filmed in 2001 with Christina Ricci in the leading role under the title Prozac Nation - My Life with the Psycho Pill , but the film was never shown in the US.
Works (selection)
- Damn beautiful world . Translation Christiane Bergfeld, Christiane Landgrebe. Berlin: Byblos, 1994 (Engl .: Prozac Nation , 1994)
- Bitch - a song of praise to dangerous women . Translation by Ulrike Wasel, Klaus Timmermann. Munich: Blessing, 1999 ( Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women , 1998)
- The bitch etiquette . Translation by Ulrike Wasel, Klaus Timmermann. Munich: Piper, 2001 (collection; published in English in 2004 under The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women )
- More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction (2001)
Web links
- Literature by and about Elizabeth Wurtzel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Elizabeth Wurtzel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Psychology: young and hopeless. In: Der Spiegel 38/1994. September 19, 1994, pp. 146-148 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Neil Genzlinger: Elizabeth Wurtzel, 'Prozac Nation' Author, Is Dead at 52. In: NYtimes.com . January 7, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ US writer Elizabeth Wurtzel is dead. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de . January 7, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wurtzel, Elizabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wurtzel, Elizabeth Lee (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 2020 |
| Place of death | Manhattan , New York, USA |