Janna Malamud Smith (born 1952) is an American non-fiction writer.
She grew up in Oregon, then in Bennington, Vermont, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[1] Smith has lectured widely, and has published nationally and internationally in many newspapers, magazines and journals.
The first two, Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life (1997) and A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear (2003) were both chosen as “Notable Books” by The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
[2][3] Her third, My Father is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud (2006) received a starred review from Publishers Weekly,[4] was selected as a Washington Post “Best Book of the Year”,[4] and a New York Times “Editors’ Choice”.