# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janet-malcolm
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:20:24.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janet-malcolm"
name: "Janet Malcolm"
slug: "janet-malcolm"
description: "Janet Clara Malcolm was an American writer, staff journalist at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist who fled antisemitic persecution in Nazi-occupied Prague. She was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990). Malcolm wrote frequently about psychoanalysis and explored the relationship between journalist and subject. She was known for her prose style and for polarizing criticism of her profession, especially in her most contentious work, The Journalist and the Murderer, which has become a staple of journalism-school curricula."
tagline: "American journalist (1934–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Janet_Malcolm_3.18.13a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1934-07-08"
deathDate: "2021-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.97
  momentum:             0.2976190476190476
  historical:           9.27506
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جانيت مالكوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جانيت مالكوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolmov%C3%A1"
    title: "Janet Malcolmová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm"
    title: "Janet Malcolm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm"
    title: "Janet Malcolm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm"
    title: "Janet Malcolm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm"
    title: "Janet Malcolm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm"
    title: "Janet Malcolm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm"
    title: "Janet Malcolm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Malcolm"
    title: "Janet Malcolm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6153486"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump