Author record · 2007 to 2023
Janet Malcolm: Awards and Best-of Lists
Janet Malcolm has won 1 award, the PEN America Literary Awards (2008) for Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, with 4 shortlist or finalist places and 13 year-end list picks in our archive.
Every recognition
| Year | Book | Source | Result | Translator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Still Pictures | The New Yorker Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Also Recommended | |
| 2023 | Still Pictures | The Economist Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Biography and memoir | |
| 2023 | Still Pictures | The Irish Times Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books of the Year | |
| 2019 | Nobody's Looking At You: Essays | NPR Books We Love source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books We Love | |
| 2019 | Nobody's Looking at You: Essays | The Irish Times Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books of the Year | |
| 2014 | Forty-One False Starts | PEN America Literary Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Finalist · PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay | |
| 2013 | Forty-One False Starts: Essays On Artists And Writers | National Book Critics Circle Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Finalist · Criticism | |
| 2013 | 41 False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers | Slate Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Books | |
| 2013 | Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers | Publishers Weekly Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction | |
| 2013 | Forty-One False Starts | TIME Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction | |
| 2011 | Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial | The Economist Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Culture | |
| 2008 | Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | PEN America Literary Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Winner · PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography | |
| 2008 | Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | Stonewall Book Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Nonfiction | |
| 2008 | Two Lives: Gertrude & Alice | Lambda Literary Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Finalist · Lesbian Memoir/Biography | |
| 2007 | Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice | The Economist Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Biography and memoir | |
| 2007 | Two Lives | New York Times 100 Notable Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction | |
| 2007 | Two Lives | Entertainment Weekly Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction | |
| 2007 | Two Lives | Washington Post Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Notable Nonfiction |
Books
- Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice7 sources · 2007 to 2008
- Forty-One False Starts4 sources · 2013 to 2014
- Still Pictures3 sources · 2023
- Nobody's Looking At You: Essays2 sources · 2019
- 41 False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers1 source · 2013
- Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial1 source · 2011