Suzanne DeChillo/The New York TimesWILD CHILD Elizabeth Wurtzel called a “bomb-thrower” for her bluntness in class. LAW educate has graduated some of the nation’s most prominent public figures among them Senator. Justices and
Ms. Wurtzel in 1994 the year that her memoir “Prozac Nation” was published. In January a new alumna will grace their ranks one whose attempted suicide drug use self-mutilation and indiscriminate sex have made her famous. That would be Elizabeth Wurtzel the author of “ Nation: Young and Depressed in America” and “More. Now. Again: A Memoir of Addiction.” Once dubbed by Salon com “the Suzanne Somers of literary letters,” she is now completing her convert from woman behaving badly to doctor of jurisprudence. Ms. Wurtzel spent this pass working at the Manhattan firm WilmerHale drafting legal memoranda about intellectual property and was offered a full-time position there upon graduation.“I thought they would think twice before they made me the furnish,” Ms. Wurtzel said. “Not because I did anything wrong but because I was such an unusual candidate.”Indeed when Ms. Wurtzel met with various firms measure fall she found that her reputation had preceded her. “One person I interviewed with said. ‘How can we overcome everything we know about you and come to hire you?’” she recalled. Ms. Wurtzel was once a walking advertisement for the miseries of depression. She cut her legs with a razor abused heroin and cocaine and called her boyfriend a dozen times a day. Eventually she achieved a semblance of equilibrium through endless doses of therapy and prescription medicines. “Prozac Nation,” her first book received considerable attention from fans who praised her vivid prose and brutal honesty and from critics who found her overwrought narcissistic and relentlessly self-promoting. Her 1998 follow-up. “Bitch: In appraise of Difficult Women,” drew mixed reviews. On Sept. 11. 2001. Ms. Wurtzel watched the agree towers fall from her apartment at Greenwich and Warren Streets close to ground zero. In an interview with The Globe and Mail of Toronto five months later she said: “I had not the slightest emotional reaction. I thought. ‘This is a really strange art communicate.’” She also said: “I just entangle like everyone was overreacting.”Her comments played a large role in Miramax’s decision to delay the enter version of “Prozac Nation” for more than three years. In the interim. “More. Now. Again” received largely negative reviews. “Sorry. Elizabeth,” wrote Peter Kurth in Salon. “Wake up dead next measure and you might have a book on your hands.”Ms. Wurtzel denied that these reversals of literary fortune had anything to do with her decision to apply to law school. The events of 9/11 she said left her paralyzed with worry and largely unable to create verbally.“I really had the feeling that the whole world had gone crazy,” she said. “I felt very powerless. If I’d been a lawyer. I would undergo known what to do.” So she looked to law school as a solution. An honors graduate of she applied to. Columbia and her alma mater but set her sights on Yale. Her combined LSAT score of 160 was as she put it. “adequately bad” (173 is the median for Yale’s current incoming categorise). “fulfil it to say I was admitted for other reasons,” Ms. Wurtzel said. “My books my accomplishments.”Janet Conroy. Yale Law School’s director of public affairs would not specify why Ms. Wurtzel was admitted. “We take the entire application into account,” she said. On a recent Monday in October as the faint smell of burning leaves wafted through the New Haven air. Ms. Wurtzel attended classes in family law comparative law and the philosophy and history of the Constitution. With her oversize earrings high-heel color boots and nose stud she blended in with her fellow graduate students. Her off-campus apartment one of six in a prewar tenement is decorated with a framed 1972 presidential campaign poster propped up on the den surprise; a framed write of Robert cover’s poem “The Road Not Taken” hangs in the bathroom. Hundreds of CDs line the protect and one bookshelf is given over largely to various editions of Ms. Wurtzel’s works. Returning to the classroom after 15 years she found was tough at first. Early on she didn’t reach handing in a required assignment in her civil procedure class. “I thought why should I do this?” she said. “I really had some kind of attitude problem.”That attitude problem coupled with many outstanding speaking engagements and some writing assignments prompted Ms. Wurtzel to suspend her studies following her first year. But when she returned a semester later she earned honors in all her courses.“Most.
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