Tatiana Schlossberg, writer and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, dies at 35
- - Tatiana Schlossberg, writer and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, dies at 35
Wesley StenzelDecember 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Tatiana Schlossberg in Richmond, Calif., on Nov. 16, 2019
Tatiana Schlossberg, the environmental journalist and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, has died.
The JFK Library Foundation announced that the writer died on Tuesday morning at age 35. "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning," the foundation wrote on Instagram. "She will always be in our hearts."
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Prince William, Jack Schlossberg, Tatiana Schlossberg, and Caroline Kennedy
The message was attributed to Schlossberg's husband, George Moran, and their two children, Edwin and Josephine. The journalist's parents, Ed Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy, were also listed, as were her siblings, Jack and Rose Schlossberg, and her brother-in-law, Rory McAuliffe (Rose's husband).
Schlossberg was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in September 2024. In November, she announced in a New Yorker essay that the cancer had undergone a mutation called Inversion 3 that led to a terminal diagnosis.
Born in Lenox Hill, N.Y., in 1990, Schlossberg graduated from Yale in 2012 with a BA in history and earned a Master's degree in American history from Oxford in 2014. She worked as the Yale Herald's editor-in-chief and also worked for the Vineyard Gazette in Edgartown, Ma., and the New Jersey outlet The Record before becoming an intern at The New York Times in 2014. Schlossberg worked for the Times as a Metro reporter and a science and climate journalist until 2017.
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Tatiana Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy in Boston on May 22, 2000
In 2019, Schlossberg published Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Didn’t Know You Had, a non-fiction book that explored the ecological cost of contemporary consumerism.
The journalist said that prior to her illness, she planned to author a second book that would focus on Earth's oceans. "During treatment, I learned that one of my chemotherapy drugs, cytarabine, owes its existence to an ocean animal: a sponge that lives in the Caribbean Sea, Tectitethya crypta," she wrote in her New Yorker essay in November. "I won’t write about cytarabine. I won’t find out if we were able to harness the power of the oceans, or if we let them boil and turn into a garbage dump."
Schlossberg's essay took aim at her mother's cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for his policies as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. "I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government," she wrote. "Suddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky. Doctors and scientists at Columbia, including George, didn’t know if they would be able to continue their research, or even have jobs."
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The writer explained that she intended to spend her final days focusing on her family.
"Mostly, I try to live and be with them now," she wrote. "But being in the present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come and go. So many of them are from my childhood that I feel as if I’m watching myself and my kids grow up at the same time."
She continued, "Sometimes I trick myself into thinking I’ll remember this forever, I’ll remember this when I’m dead. Obviously, I won’t. But since I don’t know what death is like and there’s no one to tell me what comes after it, I’ll keep pretending. I will keep trying to remember."
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