birth_date: 1934-07-08 00:00:00
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name: Janet Malcolm
about: Janet Malcolm was a journalist, biographer, collagist, and staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of In the Freud Archives and The Crime of Sheila McGough , as well as biographies of  Gertrude Stein,  Sylvia Plath, and  Anton Chekhov.The Modern Library chose her controversial book The Journalist and the Murderer — with its infamous first line — as one of the 100 best non-fiction works of the 20th century.Her most recent book is Forty-one False Starts . Janet Malcolm was a journalist, biographer, collagist, and staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of In the Freud Archives and The Crime of Sheila McGough , as well as biographies of  Gertrude Stein,  Sylvia Plath, and  Anton Chekhov.The Modern Library chose her controversial book The Journalist and the Murderer — with its infamous first line — as one of the 100 best non-fiction works of the 20th century.Her most recent book is Forty-one False Starts . ...more
death_date: 2021-06-16 00:00:00