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
.