Janet Malcolm
author
Janet Malcolm (1934–2021) was an eminent American writer and staff journalist at The New Yorker. Born Jana Klara Wienerová in Prague, she fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939 and eventually settled in the United States. Malcolm was celebrated for her sharp analytical style and her ability to explore the intricacies of human behavior, psychoanalysis, and the arts. Her early career as a photography critic for The New Yorker produced her first book, Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography (1980). She is also renowned for major non-fiction works such as The Journalist and the Murderer and In the Freud Archives. She was also an active collagist and practitioner of visual arts.[1,2,3,4,5]
- psychoanalysis
- human behavior
- photography
- journalism
Works by Janet Malcolm
- 1980 Diana and Nikon: Essays on Photography Expanded edition published in 1997.
- 1981 Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
- 1984 In the Freud Archives
- 1990 The Journalist and the Murderer
- 2008 Two Lives: Alice and Gertrude Won the 2008 PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
- 2014 Forty-One False Starts Finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
Awards
- 2008 PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
- 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (Finalist)
- 1982 National Book Award (Finalist)