The Washington Post reports that author and reporter Elizabeth Wurtzel—whose 1994 book Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America became a kind of bible for Gen-Xers and was a prototype for the deeply personal writing that has thrived over the last two decades—has died.
essay entitled “I have cancer. Don’t tell me you’re sorry,” in which she detailed her diagnosis of late-stage breast cancer. Typical of her self-deprecating confessional style, she wrote:
I love being controversial, because that’s the closest you get to everyone agreeing with you – the other choice is no one is paying attention.I am worse than cancer. And now I have cancer. All anyone can do is forgive me. Which is exactly what they have been doing all along. None of the stories I wrote down were nearly so fantabulous as the excuses I made for myself for being myself.We are human. Unlike other creatures, we live in narrative. We are conscious. If you make up the right story, it will be so.I am like that. I am excited to be alive.was Wurtzel’s first and longest-lasting claim to fame, even being translated to a 2001 film starring Christina Ricci, the writer was prolific and ambitious well beyond her ‘90s star turn.
I think I have the same problems everyone else has. Not exactly, but kind of. It turns out that cancer is very common—maybe the most normal thing that’s happened to me. It’s unbelievably common. And really, most of the things that have happened to me, they happen to everybody. The one thing I shouldn’t feel about anything that happens to me is ashamed. Who doesn’t get all messed up with this or that thing?
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