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== Early life == Malcolm was born in [[Prague]] in 1934, one of two daughters (the other is the author [[Marie Winn]]), of Hanna (nΓ©e Taussig) and Josef Wiener (aka Joseph A. Winn), a psychiatrist.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/six-glimpses-of-the-past |title=Six Glimpses of the Past |first=Janet |last=Malcolm |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=October 29, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.cjh.org//repositories/5/resources/10514 |title=Winn Family Collection; Identifier: AR 25493 |publisher=Center for Jewish History |access-date=June 19, 2021}}</ref> She resided in New York City after her [[Jewish]] family emigrated from [[Czechoslovakia]] in 1939, fleeing [[History of the Jews in Czechoslovakia#Holocaust|Nazi persecution of Jews]].<ref name="paris-review/interview/6073">{{Cite news|last=Roiphe|first=Katie|date=2011|title=The Art of Nonfiction No. 4|journal=The Paris Review. Interviews.|language=en|volume=Spring 2011|issue=196|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6073/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-4-janet-malcolm|access-date=June 17, 2021|issn=0031-2037}}</ref> Malcolm was educated at the [[High School of Music & Art|High School of Music and Art]], and then at the [[University of Michigan]],<ref name="paris-review/interview/6073" /> where she wrote for the campus newspaper, ''The Michigan Daily'', and the humor magazine, ''The Gargoyle'', later editing ''The Gargoyle''.<ref name="paris-review/interview/6073" />
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