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Tatiana Schlossberg, Environmental Journalist and JFK Granddaughter, Dies at 35

One month earlier, she disclosed a terminal acute myeloid leukemia diagnosis in a New Yorker essay reflecting on family and criticizing her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Overview

  • Her death on Dec. 30 was announced by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in a family-signed message on social media.
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick praised her Nov. 22 essay as a clear, urgent account of her illness, love for her family, and anger over a relative's health policy decisions.
  • In the essay, she said she was diagnosed after the birth of her daughter in 2024 and underwent chemotherapy, a bone-marrow transplant at Memorial Sloan Kettering, and a CAR-T trial before being told she had about a year to live.
  • She was an environmental reporter and author of Inconspicuous Consumption, which won the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.
  • She is survived by her husband, George Moran, their children, Edwin and Josephine, her parents, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, and her siblings, Rose and Jack.