The Writer And Activist Announced Her Cancer Diagnosis One Month Before Her Passing
Following a battle with cancer, Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, died on Tuesday, Dec. 30.
The daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, Tatiana was also the granddaughter to President John F. Kennedy.
She was a writer for The New York Times, and worked as a frequent contributor to publications such as The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post. In 2019, she had her debut book published, titled Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have.
News of her passing was announced by the JFK Library Foundation, which wrote, “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.”
This was signed by George Moran, her husband; Edwin, her son; and Josephine, her daughter; as well as Edwin Schlossberg, her father; Caroline Kennedy, her mother; Jack, her brother; Rose, her sister; and Rory, her cousin.
In an article titled “A Battle with My Blood,” which was published in The New Yorker in November, Tatiana announced that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
This diagnosis, she revealed, was made when she gave birth to her second child, Josephine, in May of 2024.
Of her diagnosis, she stated it is typically seen in older patients, with many medical professionals inquiring as to if she had spent a great deal of time at Ground Zero on 9/11.
“I was in New York on 9/11 in the sixth grade,” she recalled. “I didn’t visit the site until years later.”
Looking to her life as it was ending right before her eyes, she wrote that she has been trying to be present with her young children, writing, “But being in the present is harder than it sounds…”
She also wrote of her son, Edwin, saying, “My son knows that I’m a writer and that I write about our planet. Since I’ve been sick, I remind him a lot, so that he will know I was not just a sick person.”
See the photos of her taken in November for The New Yorker, here:
Read the post made in her memory by her family, here:
