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(1934-2021) Journalist, author. Janet Malcolm was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and died in Manhattan, New York. She was a writer for The New Yorker.

Full Name

Janet Malcolm

Locations

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Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Ms. Malcolm attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, New York.

1934

BIRTH

Janet Malcolm was born Jana Klara Wienerova in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on July 8, 1934.

1939

RESIDENCE

As a child around 1939, Ms. Malcolm lived in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

1940

RESIDENCE

As a child, Ms. Malcolm moved with her family to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York, in 1940.

1981

LITWORK

Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
Jason Aronson, Inc.
1568213425 / 978-1568213422
Nonfiction.

1984

LITWORK

In the Freud Archives
Knopf
0394538692 / 978-0394538693
Nonfiction.

1990

LITWORK

The Journalist and the Murderer
Alfred A. Knopf

Nonfiction.

1994

LITWORK

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes
A. A. Knopf
0679431586 / 978-0679431589
Nonfiction.

1999

LITWORK

The Crime of Sheila McGough
A. A. Knopf
0375405089 / 978-0375405082
Nonfiction.

2001

LITWORK

Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
Random House
0375506683 / 978-0375506680
Nonfiction.

2007

LITWORK

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Yale University Press
0522854362 / 978-0300125511
Nonfiction.

2011

LITWORK

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial
Yale University Press
0300167466 / 978-0300167467
Nonfiction.

2013

LITWORK

Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
978-0-374-15769-2
Collection of essays.

2019

LITWORK

Nobody's Looking at You
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374279497 / 978-0374279493
Nonfiction.

2021

DEATH

Janet Malcolm died at a hospital in Manhattan, New York, on June 16, 2021.

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