Tatiana Schlossberg, Writer and Daughter of Caroline Kennedy, Dead at 35

Tatiana Schlossberg, the middle child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, died on Tuesday, Dec. 30. She was 35.

The news was shared via the JFK Library Foundation’s social media accounts on behalf of her extended family.

“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the statement read, signed by “George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory.”

In November 2025, Schlossberg revealed in an essay that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Doctors discovered the cancer while she was hospitalized after the birth of her second child, a daughter. She and her husband, George Moran, whom she married in 2017, were also parents to a young son.

Reflecting on her diagnosis, Schlossberg described the shock of learning she was seriously ill despite feeling healthy late into her pregnancy. She wrote that she had been swimming and active just days before being hospitalized and struggled to accept that she would need chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.

Throughout months of treatment, Schlossberg wrote candidly about the support she received from her family. Her parents, her older sister Rose, and her younger brother Jack were constant presences. Rose proved to be a stem cell match and donated cells for Schlossberg’s first transfusion. Jack, a partial match, repeatedly asked doctors whether he might still be able to help.

She described her family’s unwavering presence as a profound gift, even as she sensed their own pain and grief. Schlossberg also reflected on the long history of loss within her family, noting the weight of adding another tragedy to her mother’s life.

In her essay, Schlossberg did not shy away from political criticism, expressing anger over health policy decisions she believed directly affected cancer research and women’s care. Writing from her hospital bed, she described watching funding cuts and regulatory threats unfold while she was undergoing intensive treatment. She also recounted surviving a near-fatal postpartum hemorrhage and emphasized how critical access to lifesaving medication had been in that moment.

Despite her illness, Schlossberg tried to center her final months on the life she had built with her husband and children. She wrote with tenderness about Moran’s devotion, describing how he balanced caring for their children at home while spending nights at her bedside.

After being told she might have only a year to live, Schlossberg said her first fear was that her children would not remember her. She worried especially about her daughter, whom she was unable to care for directly during much of her first year because of infection risks following transplants.

Schlossberg earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University and a master’s degree in American history from the University of Oxford. She was a writer with a focus on environmental issues and had planned to pursue research on ocean conservation before her diagnosis.

In her final reflections, Schlossberg wrote about trying to stay present with her children while allowing memories to surface naturally. She described the strange feeling of watching her own childhood and her children’s lives overlap in her mind, holding on to moments even as she acknowledged how fleeting they are.

“Mostly, I try to live and be with them now,” she wrote, adding that remembering — even imperfectly — became a way of resisting the unknown that lay ahead.