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Janet Malcolm

American journalist (1934–2021).

Wikipedia

Portrait source · Wikimedia Commons

Recognized books

Wins

Lists

Index score

1982—2014

Recognition span

Author in the index

Janet Malcolm has 3 books in the current index, recognized by prize programs between 1982 and 2014. The records span 4 leading prize families shown here.

Top recognition

National Book Awards1

National Book Critics Circle Awards1

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay1

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography1

Subject profile

Arts & Criticism1

Biography1

Medicine & Public Health1

Indexed works

Books by Janet Malcolm

3 books · sorted by recognition

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and WritersArts & Criticism20136 pts Two Lives: Gertrude and AliceBiography20074 pts Psychoanalysis: The Impossible ProfessionMedicine & Public Health19814 pts

Year	Title	Subject	Score	Wins	Lists	Imprint
2013	Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers	Arts & Criticism	6	0	2	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2007	Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice	Biography	4	1	1	Yale University Press
1981	Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession	Medicine & Public Health	4	0	1	Vintage Books

Prize metrics come from Book Prize Index records. Biographical description and portrait metadata are sourced from the matched Wikidata and Wikimedia records; uncertain identity matches are omitted.

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