pain in the ass. But compared with being 26 and crazy and waiting for some guy to call, it's not so bad. If I can handle 39 breakups in 21 days, I can get through cancer." She said of her double mastectomy and reconstruction, "It is quite amazing. They do both at the same time. You go in with breast cancer and come out with stripper boobs." Wurtzel died in Manhattan from leptomeningeal disease as a complication of metastasized breast cancer on January 7, 2020, at age 52. Her personal effects were sold at auction two years later. Bibliography Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir (1994), Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (1998), More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction (2001), The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women (2004) (previously published as Radical Sanity and The Bitch Rules), Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood (2015), References External links Everything I know I learned from Bob Dylan by Elizabeth Wurtzel 1998 interview with Elizabeth Wurtzel by Gerald Peary Sole Rock N Roll Survivor – Wurtzel's piece from The Harvard Crimson which won the 1987 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award A Conversation with Elizabeth Wurtzel, Author and First-Year Lawyer October 11, 2008 blog post from WSJ.com 1967 births 2020 deaths 20th-century American essayists 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American essayists 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American women writers American women essayists American women journalists Deaths from breast cancer Deaths from cancer in New York (state) Harvard College alumni The Harvard Crimson people Jewish American writers Journalists from New York City Lawyers from New York City People from the Upper East Side People involved in plagiarism controversies People with mood disorders Ramaz School alumni The Dallas Morning News people The New Yorker staff writers Writers from Manhattan Yale Law School alumni American women memoirists American memoirists Boies Schiller Flexner people 21st-century American Jews