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Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

Janet Malcolm

Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating collection includes Malcolm's now iconic essay about the painter David Salle.

  • Classification : Literary Essays
  • Pub Date : AUG 7, 2014
  • Imprint : Granta Books
  • Page Extent : 320
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781847088567
  • Price : INR 999
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Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) is widely considered to be one of America's most notable literary journalists. She was born in Prague and was educated at the University of Michigan. She was a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several critically acclaimed books, including In the Freud Archives, The Journalist and the Murderer, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes all published by Granta. She won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography for Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press) in 2008. Her final book Still Pictures is forthcoming in 2023.

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