The book was eventually adapted into a 2001 film starring Christina Ricci.
Its title became a stand-in for a mode of thinking that has retained relevance as other antidepressants have overtaken the market. Though the book initially received mixed reviews, it predicted and influenced a wave of works that dealt with drugs and mental health in a genre, memoir, that had historically been dominated by established names. In it, she claimed to be one of the first people put on the drug Prozac after it received FDA approval. Wurtzel published Prozac Nation, a book that chronicled her own experiences with depression and psychiatric medication, in 1994, and it sparked controversy and a frank conversation about mental health. According to NPR, the cause was breast cancer.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, the essayist and lawyer whose best-selling Prozac Nation became a Gen X touchstone, died Tuesday in a Manhattan hospital at the age of 52.
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