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Janet Malcolm (1934–2021)

Author of The Journalist and the Murderer

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Janet Malcolm is the acclaimed author of many books, including In the Freud Archives; Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice; and Burdock, a volume of her photographs of a "rank weed." She is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. — biography from Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers… (more)
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (Contributor) 523 copies, 9 reviews
Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker (Contributor) 299 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Travel Writing 2001 (Contributor) 235 copies, 1 review
The Best American Political Writing 2006 (Contributor) 34 copies
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (Editor, Introduction) 12 copies
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Other names
Wienerova, Jana Klara (birth name)
Date of birth
1934-07-08
Date of death
2021-06-16
Burial location
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Place of death
Manhattan, New York, USA
Cause of death
lung cancer
Places of residence
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Education
University of Michigan (BA - English)
High School of Music and Art
Occupations
essayist
journalist
collagist
biographer
columnist
Relationships
Winn, Marie (sister)
Malcolm, Donald (first spouse)
Botsford, Gardner (second spouse)
Agents
Organizations
The New Yorker
The New Republic
Awards and honors
Ambassador Book Award (Lifetime Achievement ∙ 2011)
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2001
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