Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Elizabeth Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American writer. Brought up as an Orthodox Jew, she attended Ramaz for high school. While an undergraduate at Harvard College, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and received the 1986 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award. She is most known for publishing her groundbreaking memoir, Prozac Nation, at the age of twenty-six, which chronicles her battle with depression while a college undergraduate. She has also written for The New Yorker and New York Magazine. As of 2005, Wurtzel is currently attending Yale Law School.