Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) is widely considered to be one of America's most notable literary journalists. She was born in Prague and was educated at the University of Michigan. She was a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several critically acclaimed books, including In the Freud Archives , The Journalist and the Murderer , Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes all published by Granta. She won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in...See more
Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) is widely considered to be one of America's most notable literary journalists. She was born in Prague and was educated at the University of Michigan. She was a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several critically acclaimed books, including In the Freud Archives , The Journalist and the Murderer , Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes all published by Granta. She won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography for Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press) in 2008. Her final book Still Pictures is forthcoming in 2023. See less
Janet Malcolm's Featured Books
Janet Malcolm book reviews
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The Journalist and the Murderer
Malcolm
by Kallie W, Aug 18, 2023
Every book I've read by Malcolm is an excellent example of journalism and this is not exception. Read More
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
breaking the silence....
by BettyR, Sep 5, 2007
Janet Malcolm's work is an immensely satisfying read about some of the writing and publishing problems encountered by the biographers of Sylvia Plath; partly due to the over -zealous protection of ... Read More
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In the Freud Archives
An over-the-top drama inside the Freud "castle"
Though under 150 pages in length, In the Freud Archives is so complex that, to serve the potential purchaser of this book, I want to confine my comments to the writer?s craft, that is, to how Janet ... Read More