'Prozac Nation' Author Died From Complications at 52
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Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose memoir was adapted into a 2001 Christina Ricci-starring movie, passed away in a New York City hospital more than four years after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

AceShowbiz - Elizabeth Wurtzel, the author of best-selling memoir "Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America", has died.

The writer passed away in a New York City hospital on Tuesday, January 7, according to the New York Times. She was 52.

In her breakthrough memoir, she documented her struggles with depression and substance abuse, but neither contributed to her death.

Wurtzel's husband, Jim Freed, has cited complications from leptomeningeal disease, a condition that results from cancer spreading to the cerebrospinal fluid, as the cause of death.

Born in Manhattan, Wurtzel was a gifted student who won admission to Harvard University, where she struggled with depression.

She later won a journalism award from Rolling Stone and became a music critic for the New Yorker and New York Magazines.

She published "Prozac Nation" in 1994. The memoir was adapted into a 2001 movie, starring Christina Ricci.

Wurtzel was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.

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