NEW YORK — Janet Malcolm, the inquisitive and boldly subjective author and reporter known for her challenging critiques of everything from murder cases and art to journalism itself, has died.
Supreme Court allowing it go to trial and Malcolm testifying, to much skepticism, that she could not find a notebook in which she wrote down some of his remarks.
Malcolm’s honors included a PEN award for biography in 2008 for “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice” and a nomination in 2014 from the National Book Critics Circle for “Forty-One False Starts.” In 1999, the Modern Library ranked “The Journalist and the Murderer” No.
At the University of Michigan, she met her first husband, Donald Malcolm, later a writer for The New Republic and The New Yorker.
I was influenced by this thing that was in the air called deconstruction,” she added.
“We do not wring our hands or rend our clothes over the senseless crimes and disasters that give us our subject.