Janet Malcolm - 86
was an American writer, journalist on staff at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist. She wrote The Journalist and the Murderer in 1990, which became a mainstay of journalism-school curiculum.
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The Celebrities We Lost in 2021
The More You Know
- Actor Joaquin Phoenix was born in a cult, which might help explain why his siblings were named River, Rain, Liberty, and Summer. Their parents were members of Children of God group, which was founded in the 1960s.
- Shakira was banned from her school’s choir, and her classmates said she sounded like a goat.
- Morgan Freeman has a private pilot’s license, which he earned at the age of 65!
- As a child, Johnny Depp was allergic to chocolate.