Tatiana Schlossberg died several months after revealing her diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia in an essay for The New Yorker.
Caroline Kennedy’s daughter reveals terminal cancer diagnosis
Caroline Kennedy’s daughter Tatiana Schlossberg wrote that she learned she had acute myeloid leukemia after giving birth in May 2024.
Tatiana Schlossberg, environmental journalist, author, and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 35 years old.
Her death was confirmed on Dec. 30 by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides funding and staffing for former presidents’ libraries.
“She will always be in our hearts,” her parents, siblings, husband and children said in an Instagram post.
Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and designer Edwin Schlossberg, revealed in a Nov. 22 New Yorker essay that she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Schlossberg wrote that after giving birth to her second child in May 2024, she learned she had acute myeloid leukemia and that her doctor noticed an imbalance in her white blood cell count.
In her essay, Schlossberg described how she and her family coped with the diagnosis. She said she tried to be with her children, even when it was difficult.
“All my life, I have tried to be a good student, a good sister, a good daughter, to protect my mother, to never upset or anger her,” she wrote. “Now I have added another tragedy to her life and the life of our family. There is nothing I can do to stop it.”
Schlossberg was married to George Moran, a physician at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. The couple met at Yale University and married in 2017 on the Kennedy family estate on Martha’s Vineyard. The couple have two children.
Her siblings include Rose Kennedy Schlossberg and Jack Schlossberg, who recently announced their candidacy for New York Congress.
In an essay for The New Yorker, Schlossberg wrote about the confirmation of his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and how healthcare has changed rapidly as a result. The Kennedy family argued against his selection.
“I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby used logic and common sense to land the job, even though he had never worked in medicine, public health, or government,” she wrote. “Suddenly, the health care system I relied on felt strained and unstable. Doctors and scientists at Columbia University, including George, didn’t know if they would be able to continue their research or even work.”
career in journalism
A graduate of Yale University, Schlossberg earned a master’s degree in U.S. history from Oxford University.
Her reporting career includes work at news organizations such as the New York Times and The Record/NorthJersey.com, part of the USA TODAY network in New Jersey. She writes about climate and environmental issues and is the author of Conspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Didn’t Know.
Contributor: David M. Zimmer of NorthJersey.com
