| LC control no. | n 79098078 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Malcolm, Janet |
| Variant(s) | Wienerova, Jana, 1934-2021 Winn, Janet Clara, 1934-2021 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000109024891 54244343 Q6153486 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1934-07-08 |
| Death date | 2021-06-16 |
| Place of birth | Prague (Czech Republic) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Journalism Criticism |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Critics |
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| Found in | Her Diana & Nikon, c1979: t.p. (Janet Malcolm) Wikipedia, viewed Sept. 7, 2010 (Janet Malcolm, b. 1934) Washington post WWW site, viewed June 17, 2021 (in obituary dated June 17, 2021: Janet Malcolm, a journalist and critic whose elegant and incisive articles for the New Yorker explored issues of truth, objectivity, self-deceit and betrayal, most notably in the fraught relationship between writers and their subjects, died June 16 in New York City. She was 86. Born Jana Wienerova in Prague on July 8, 1934, Ms. Malcolm was the oldest child of Jewish parents who fled to New York City on the eve of World War II. Ms. Malcolm, who took the Americanized name Janet Clara Winn, studied English at the University of Michigan, where she edited the school humor magazine and married her predecessor as editor in chief, Donald Malcolm, before graduating in 1955) New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925), 28 June 2021: page 19 (Janet Malcolm; wrote for this magazine for fifty-eight years; Janet's first piece in the magazine was a poem in 1963; she went on to publish hundreds of thousands of words of prose -- amazing prose, of the highest literary aspiration and attainment, on a range of subjects) |
| Associated language | eng |
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