Janet Malcolm | |
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Born | Jana Wienerová July 8, 1934 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Died | June 16, 2021 New York City, U.S. | (aged 86)
Nationality | United States |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Subject | Psychoanalysis |
Notable work | The Journalist and the Murderer (1990) |
Notable awards | American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2001 |
Children | 1 |
Relatives | Marie Winn (sister) |
Janet Clara Malcolm (born Jana Klara Wienerová;[1] July 8, 1934 – June 16, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She worked at The New Yorker magazine.[2] She was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990).
Malcolm died from lung cancer at the age of 86 on June 16, 2021, at a hospital in Manhattan.[3]