The Absent Woman: The Genius of Janet Malcolm

An illuminating critical biography of one of our most influential nonfiction authors, New Yorker journalist Janet Malcolm.

Janet Malcom was a New Yorker journalist and titan of American letters. Unlike her peers Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, she avoided the personal fame that her renown might have brought despite making herself a character in her work. In The Absent Woman, journalist Eve Sneider, among the first researchers to access Malcolm's archive, insightfully portrays Malcolm and delve...