12 Facts About Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, In the Freud Archives, and The Journalist and the Murderer.

Janet Malcolm was known for her prose style and for polarizing criticism of her profession, especially in her most contentious work, The Journalist and the Murderer, which has become a staple of journalism-school curricula.

Janet Malcolm resided in New York City after her Jewish family emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1939, fleeing Nazi persecution of Jews.

Janet Malcolm was educated at the High School of Music and Art, and then at the University of Michigan, where she wrote for the campus newspaper, The Michigan Daily, and the humor magazine, The Gargoyle, later editing The Gargoyle.

Janet Malcolm was a literary nonfiction writer known for her prose style and her examination of the relationship between journalist and subject.

Janet Malcolm began working at The New Yorker in 1963 with women's interest assignments, writing about holiday shopping and children's books, as well as a column on home decor.

Janet Malcolm was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001.

Janet Malcolm claimed that Masson had called himself an "intellectual gigolo".

Janet Malcolm's example was the popular nonfiction writer Joe McGinniss.

Janet Malcolm's book created a sensation when in March 1989 it appeared in two parts in The New Yorker magazine.

Janet Malcolm met her first husband, Donald Janet Malcolm, at the University of Michigan.

On June 16,2021, Janet Malcolm died of lung cancer at the age of 86 at a Manhattan hospital.