Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

This to her was a professional sin. She has resided in the United States since her family emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1939. As reported in The New York Times the author "declared in an affidavit under penalty of perjury that the notes were genuine.

She is the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981) In the Freud Archives (1984) and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990). Janet Malcolm (born 1934) is an American writer and journalist on staff at The New Yorker magazine. " The influential critic Harold Bloom has praised her "wonderful exuberance" writing that Malcolm's books "transcend what they appear to be: superb reportage.