Famed journalist Janet Malcolm died Wednesday at the age of 86, with many of her friends, fans and former colleagues honoring her legacy in social media posts.

Malcolms daughter, Anne Malcolm, told The New York Times that her mother died in a hospital in Manhattan, New York, as a result of lung cancer.

An esteemed staff writer for The New Yorker for more than five decades, Malcolm was widely regarded for her books Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), The Journalist and the Murderer (1990), The Silent Woman (1993) and many more. She was often lauded and criticized for her sharp, acerbic commentary on everyone from MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to designer Eileen Fisher to author Sylvia Plath to poet Ted Hughes.

Her New Yorker debut came in 1963, when the magazine published her poem Thoughts on Living in a Shaker House.