Question: Name the American medical doctor who was convicted in 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters and whose story is ruminated over in a study by Janet Malcolm titled 'The Journalist and the Murderer'?
Sentence (from "Thomas Flanagan (writer)"): From 1960 to 1978 he was Professor of English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in Irish literature.
Relevant evidence: No