Elizabeth Wurtzel, Author of 'Prozac Nation', Dies at 52 After Battle with Breast Cancer
Photo: Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Elizabeth Wurtzel — the author ofProzac Nationwho popularized confessional-style memoirs and was a face of Gen X — has died at the age of 52, according to multiple reports. Her husband, Jim Freed, confirmed toThe Washington Poston Tuesday that she’dbeen battling metastatic breast cancer, which then spread to her brain. She died due to complications from leptomeningeal disease in Manhattan on Tuesday, according to the newspaper....