# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-wurtzel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:25.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-wurtzel"
name: "Elizabeth Wurtzel"
slug: "elizabeth-wurtzel"
description: "Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel was an American writer, journalist, and lawyer known for the confessional memoir Prozac Nation, which she published at the age of 27. Her work often focused on chronicling her personal struggles with depression, addiction, career, and relationships. Wurtzel's work drove a boom in confessional writing and the personal memoir genre during the 1990s, and she was viewed as a voice of Generation X. In her later life, Wurtzel worked briefly as an attorney before her death from breast cancer."
tagline: "American writer and journalist (1967–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elizabeth_Wurtzel_BBF_2010_Shankbone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-07-31"
deathDate: "2020-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump