USA, Jfk’s granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg died at the age of 35: she was suffering from leukemia

Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and niece of former US president John F. Kennedy, has died at the age of 35. The family broke the news on social media from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Schlossberg, who had worked mainly on environmental issues and climate change, had made public in November, in an essay in the New Yorker, the diagnosis of a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.

Career as a journalist

Born in New York on May 5, 1990, Tatiana Schlossberg was the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, former US Ambassador, and Edwin Schlossberg, and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. After studying at Yale and Oxford, she began her career in local news in New Jersey, before joining the New York Times in 2014, where she worked first in the Metro editorial team and subsequently in the Science section, being appreciated for her rigor, curiosity and ability to make complex topics accessible. A “field” journalist, Schlossberg reported on environmental and climate policies through direct experiences: from observing the effects of climate change in a cranberry bog in Massachusetts to participating in a grueling cross-country ski race in Wisconsin, threatened by global warming. After leaving the New York Times in 2017, he collaborated with numerous publications, including Washington Post, The Atlantic and Vanity Fair. In 2019 he published Inconspicuous Consumption, an essay dedicated to the hidden environmental costs of daily habits, awarded with the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for its ability to intertwine science, history and personal narrative, offering the reader concrete tools to understand the ecological crisis.

The story of the disease in the New Yorker

Last November, Schlossberg made public, in a long essay in the New Yorker, the diagnosis of a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia, describing the treatment process that began after the birth of his second daughter in 2024, including chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants and an immunotherapy trial. In the text, in addition to reflecting on the illness, mortality and history marked by the bereavements of his family, he also harshly criticized his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., current Secretary of Health, calling him “an embarrassment” for his positions against state-funded medical research and vaccines.