ABOUT ELIZABETH WURTZEL
Author and journalist whose best-selling memoir, Prozac Nation, was published in 1994. The work was adapted into a 2001 film.
She suffered from depression beginning at age ten and was plagued by the mental illness during her time at Harvard University .
She received her J.D. from Yale Law School and was later employed by the Boies, Schiller & Flexner firm.
She was raised in New York City by parents who divorced when she was a child.
Her memoir Prozac Nation was made into a film starring Christina Ricci .
