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.
Books in order of publication:
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession. Jason Aronson. – 1981
In the Freud Archives. Alfred A. Knopf. – 1984
The Journalist and the Murderer. Alfred A. Knopf – 1990
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. Alfred A. Knopf. – 1994
The Crime of Sheila McGough. Alfred A. Knopf. – 1999
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey. Random House. – 2001
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice. Yale University Press. – 2007
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial. Yale University Press. – 2011
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. – 2023
Oak Lawn Library Friends 