Janet Malcolm, author of The Journalist and the Murderer, dies aged 86

New Yorker writer, whose scepticism about her trade brought her both praise and blame, was also famed for studies of psychoanalysis and Sylvia Plath

Janet Malcolm, the American journalist who dissected the relationship between the writer and their subject in books including The Journalist and the Murderer, In the Freud Archives and The Silent Woman, has died aged 86.

Her daughter Anne confirmed to the New York Times that the cause was lung cancer.