Law Students
‘Prozac Nation’ Author Soon to Be a Yale Law Grad
Posted Oct 29, 2007, 04:28 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
An author who wrote about her own struggle with addiction, depression and self-mutilation is weighing whether to accept a job offer from WilmerHale when she graduates from Yale Law School this January.
The famous grad is Elizabeth Wurtzel, who wrote the books Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America; Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women; and More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction.
The New York Times visited Wurtzel on campus. “With her oversize earrings, high-heel black boots, and nose stud, she blended in with her fellow graduate students,” the newspaper said.
Wurtzel told the Times she applied to law school after her emotional response to the the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks interfered with her ability to write. She said negative reviews of her later books, written after her Prozac debut, were not the reason for her decision to switch professions.
She is a little surprised by WilmerHale’s offer. “Not because I did anything wrong, but because I was such an unusual candidate,” she told the newspaper.