Author of ‘Prozac Nation’ to speak Feb. 2

Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of the best-selling book on depression and excess, “Prozac Nation,” will be the first Distinguished Lecture Series speaker of the spring semester. Wurtzel will speak on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater. Her latest book, “More, Now, Again” describes being neurotic, smart, sexy, rich, self-obsessed and addicted to Ritalin.

Free tickets for UW students, faculty, staff and Union members will be available beginning Monday, Jan. 26, at the Union Box office. Public tickets, if available, will be offered starting Thursday, Jan. 29.

The next speaker in the series is author Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning “Guns, Germs and Steel,” and recipient of the National Medal of Science for landmark research and breakthrough discoveries in evolutionary biology. He speaks Tuesday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. Campus ticket distribution starts Monday, March 15; Thursday, March 18, for the public.

Oceanographer Sylvia Earle will speak Monday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. Student, faculty, staff and Union member tickets will be available Monday, March 29. Public ticket distribution (if available) starts Thursday, April 1.

The semester’s last speaker is the founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, Arun Gandhi, who will appear Monday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. Campus ticket distribution starts Monday, April 5, with public tickets, if available, being distributed Thursday, April 8.

For more information: Jake Behrens, lectureseries@union.wisc.edu, 262-2216.