Janet Malcolm

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Janet Malcolm (born Jana Klara Wienerová on July 8, 1934 in Prague ; died on June 16, 2021 in Manhattan ) was an American journalist .

Life

Jana Wiener was the daughter of the Prague doctor Joseph Wiener (later Joseph A. Winn) and the lawyer Hanna Taussigová; her younger sister is the American journalist Marie Winn (Marie Krajbich). Her family fled to the USA after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939.

Janet Wiener attended the High School of Music and Art in New York and studied at the University of Michigan . Wiener has since worked as an editor for The New Yorker magazine . In her artistic work she dealt with collages . Until his death in 1975 she was married to the literary critic Donald Malcolm, who worked like her for the magazine The New Yorker . Their daughter was born in 1963. From 1975 she was married to Gardner Botsford, the editor of the New Yorker , who died at the age of 87 in 2004. Malcom lived in New York City. She died of lung cancer in June 2021 at the age of 86.

Malcolm was involved in the 1981 controversy surrounding the work of the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson in the Freud Archives in New York and in Freud's apartment in London and criticized Masson's theses on Sigmund Freud's change in attitude to seduction theory and his approach to the archive material. Malcolm wrote about it in the New Yorker and published the book In the Freud Archives in 1984 . Masson then initiated a libel lawsuit against the New Yorker and against Malcolm for $ 10 million, which the New Yorker ultimately won.

In 2008 Malcolm received the “PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography” for the book about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and also the “Judy Grahn Award” and a “Lambda Literary Award”. She was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2013 with Forty-One False Starts . Her essay The Journalist and the Murderer (1989) began with the statement “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible”.

She had been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters , Department of Literature since 2001 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Diana & Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography (1980)
  • Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981)
    • Questions to ask a psychoanalyst. To the situation of an impossible job . Translation Günther Mecke. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1983
  • In the Freud Archives . London: Cape, 1984 (new epilogue 1997)
    • Father, dear father ... From the Sigmund Freud Archive . Translation by Eva Brückner-Pfaffenberger. Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein, 1986, ISBN 3-548-34319-8
  • The Journalist and the Murderer . New York: Knopf, 1990 (about husband Jeffrey MacDonald , journalist Joe McGinniss, and his book Fatal Vision (1983))
  • The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings . Essays. (1992)
  • The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes (1994)
    • The silent woman. The biographies of Sylvia Plath . Translation by Susanne Friederike Levin. Hamburg: Waiter, 1994
  • The Crime of Sheila McGough (1999)
  • Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey (2001)
    • Read Chekhov. A literary journey . Translation Anna and Henning Ritter. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2010
  • Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (2007)
    • Two lives. Gertrude and Alice . Translation of Chris Shepherd. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​2008
  • Burdock . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008 (book on burdock ).
  • Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial (2011)
  • Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers (2013)
  • Nobody's Looking at You: Essays . FSG, 2019

Art exhibition

  • Janet Malcolm: free associations . Exhibition catalog. With an essay by Hilton Als . New York: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 2011

literature

Web links

Essays

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Joseph Winn, Psychiatrist And Ex-Head of 2 VA Clinics , NYT obituary, February 11, 1983
  2. ↑ Janet Malcolm , at Lori Bookstein Fine Art Art Gallery New York
  3. ^ Katie Roiphe: The Art of Nonfiction No. 4 (s) . In: The Paris Review. Interviews. , 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2021. 
  4. ↑ Dinitia Smith: Gardner Botsford, 87, Dies; Editor at The New Yorker (en-US) . In: The New York Times , September 29, 2004. Retrieved June 19, 2021. 
  5. ↑ Katharine Q. Seelye: Janet Malcolm, Provocative Journalist With a Piercing Eye, Dies at 86 (en-US) . In: The New York Times , June 17, 2021. Retrieved June 19, 2021. 
personal data
SURNAME Malcolm, Janet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wienerová, Jana Klara (maiden name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Manhattan