Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm is the author of numerous books, including The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes , Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession , and In the Freud Archives . She has been writing for the New Yorker since 1963, when the magazine published her poem "Thoughts on Living in a Shaker House." For nearly ten years, she wrote "About the House," a column on interiors and design. From 1975 until 1981, she wrote a photography column. Janet was born in Prague and emigrated with her...See more

Janet Malcolm is the author of numerous books, including The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes , Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession , and In the Freud Archives . She has been writing for the New Yorker since 1963, when the magazine published her poem "Thoughts on Living in a Shaker House." For nearly ten years, she wrote "About the House," a column on interiors and design. From 1975 until 1981, she wrote a photography column. Janet was born in Prague and emigrated with her family to the United States in 1939. She now lives in New York. See less