Elizabeth Wurtzel graduated from Harvard College, where she received the 1986 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award.She was music critic at The New Yorker and New York, and her articles have appeared in numerous magazines.She is the author of the best-selling Prozac Nation and Bitch- In Praise of Difficult Women, and she currently lives in New York City.The film Prozac Nation starring Christina Ricci and Jessica Lange will be released in 2001.
Praise for Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women One of the more honest, insightful and witty books on the subject of women to have come along in a while. -Karen Lehrman, New York Times Book Review The Courtney Love of letters--an extraordinarily thought-provoking, absorbing, wise, often poignant read. You can disagree with Wurtzel, but at least she always has a passionate point of view. -Dana Kennedy, Entertainment Weekly It's got the preposterous energy of a great, drunken tantrum, and a voluptuous, sprawling style, with lots of good, zinging jokes. -Mary Gaitskill, The Village Voice Literary Supplement Praise for Prozac Nation Sparkling, luminescent prose...by turns wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware, Prozac Nation possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar, the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song...a powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back. -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Thoughtful...Very brave...like all provocateurs, she poses questions which make you think. -Julia Phillips, Vanity Fair Sylvia Plath with the ego of Madonna. -The New York Times Book Review Praise for Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women One of the more honest, insightful and witty books on the subject of women to have come along in a while. -Karen Lehrman, New York Times Book Review The Courtney Love of letters--an extraordinarily thought-provoking, absorbing, wise, often poignant read. You can disagree with Wurtzel, but at least she always has a passionate point of view. -Dana Kennedy, Entertainment Weekly It's got the preposterous energy of a great, drunken tantrum, and a voluptuous, sprawling style, with lots of good, zinging jokes. -Mary Gaitskill, The Village Voice Literary Supplement Praise for Prozac Nation Sparkling, luminescent prose...by turns wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware, Prozac Nation possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar, the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song...a powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back. -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Thoughtful...Very brave...like all provocateurs, she poses questions which make you think. -Julia Phillips, Vanity Fair Sylvia Plath with the ego of Madonna. - The New York Times Book Review Praise for Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women One of the more honest, insightful and witty books on the subject of women to have come along in a while. -Karen Lehrman, New York Times Book Review The Courtney Love of letters--an extraordinarily thought-provoking, absorbing, wise, often poignant read. You can disagree with Wurtzel, but at least she always has a passionate point of view. -Dana Kennedy, Entertainment Weekly It's got the preposterous energy of a great, drunken tantrum, and a voluptuous, sprawling style, with lots of good, zinging jokes. -Mary Gaitskill, The Village Voice Literary Supplement Praise for Prozac Nation Sparkling, luminescent prose...by turns wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware, Prozac Nation possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar, the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song...a powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back. -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Thoughtful...Very brave...like all provocateurs, she poses questions which make you think. -Julia Phillips, Vanity Fair Sylvia Plath with the ego of Madonna. - The New York Times Book Review