Janet Malcolm

Journalist who often writes for The New Yorker magazine. Her prickly, highly intelligent pen is usually found skewering something still alive.

Her books include:

• Inside The Freud Archives[?]
• The Journalist and The Murderer[?]
• Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession[?], a good starting point.
• The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes[?]
• The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings[?], which contains the excellent essay, "A Girl of the Zeitgeist."