Janet Malcolm is an American author and journalist on the staff of The New Yorker magazine. Her prickly, highly intelligent pen is usually found skewering something still alive.
She was born in Prague, one of two daughters born to a psychiatrist father, but has lived in the United States ever since her family emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1939. She was educated at the University of Michigan. Janet Malcolm lives in New York with her second husband, Gardner Botsford.
Her works include:
- Inside The Freud Archives
- The Journalist and The Murderer
- Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, an examination of the notoriously closed psychoanalytic community.
- The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes
- The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings, which contains the excellent essay, "A Girl of the Zeitgeist."
- Essays and features on photography criticism