Elizabeth Wurtzel has died

[CruCru]

I'm quite sad to hear it. I read Prozac Nation as a teenager and thought Bitch was really good. She was young too, only 52.

Yes it's really sad.

I was thinking about starting a thread on this - thank you, CruCru. Wurtzel was fab, definitely a bit of a 90s icon - I remember reading Prozac Nation and Bitch, lying in the parks of Bristol when I was young and slender and better-looking than I knew...

I still re-read The Bitch Rules from time to time and got my copy out last night. I think it might be my favourite self-help book - it is so funny and wise, really surprisingly good advice, I love it.

I read Prozac nation in Bristol parks too! Sad news.

Never read it. Is it worth reading now? I do remember her making a stir. She was 27 when she wrote it so I must have been a teen then.

Was really sad to hear it. I'm going to read Prozac nation again

I read Prozac Nation in Bristol too. It really resonated with me at that point in my life.

I'm a bit devastated she died, partly because of how her book spoke to me, but also because she died of breast cancer, she had a mutated BRCA gene, and she had Ashkenazi Jew heritage but was never tested.

I actually sent a copy of her NY Times story about it to my daughter at college, who has Ashkenazi Jewish heritage but whose doctor thinks she doesn't have 'enough' of an Ashkenazi Jewish heritage to need testing. Going to follow up on that.

Was shocked to read this too - partly selfishly, as she felt like a contemporary although she was 7 years older than me, and I'm not ready to see contemporaries in the obituary pages.

I read Prozac Nation when it was first published - I was somewhat irritated but intrigued, and a lot of it has really stuck with me.

Another one who read this as a youngster in Bristol. An amazing book I've never forgotten.