Tatiana Schlossberg has died at the age of 35, after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia. She is survived by her husband, George Moran, their son, Edwin, a daughter whose name has not been publicly revealed, her parents Edwin Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy, and her siblings Rose and Jack.
Schlossberg was a noted climate change and environmental journalist for The New York Times. Her work was also featured in outlets including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, and Bloomberg. She also published a Substack, News from a Changing Planet, dedicated to climate-change reporting. Schlossberg publicly announced her terminal diagnosis in a moving essay, “A Battle with My Blood,” published in the November 22, 2025, issue of The New Yorker.
Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg was born on May 5, 1990, in New York City, to designer and artist Edwin Schlossberg and philanthropist, writer and diplomat Caroline Kennedy, the only daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. She was named after the Russian-American printmaker and publisher Tatyana Grosman.
Although she was born into the Kennedy dynasty, Schlossberg and her siblings enjoyed a private, carefully guarded childhood in Manhattan. She was only four when her grandmother, Jackie Kennedy, died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1994. In 1996, she and her older sister, Rose, were flower girls at their uncle John F. Kennedy Jr.’s wedding to Carolyn Bessette. Her little brother, Jack, was ring bearer. In 1999, the couple, along with Bessette’s sister, Lauren, died in a plane crash off Martha’s Vineyard.
Their deaths were yet another tragedy in the Kennedy family, leaving Caroline Kennedy the last remaining member of her immediate family. As a result, Schlossberg felt protective of her mother. “For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” she wrote in The New Yorker.
Schlossberg found other ways to connect with her late family members. “My grandparents, both of them, from what I understand, because I didn’t really know them, loved history and reading about history,” she told Vanity Fair in 2019. “And that’s kind of how I’ve connected with them, by studying them and their time, but also the eras and patterns that fascinated them, and imagining where we would disagree. That’s an important way for me personally to connect with my family legacy.”
